Sage Pov
“Sage.” Suddenly, everything stopped. The portal was frozen, the colors molded together but stopped moving. I frowned, confused, looking at my mother’s face, my sister’s, the two people closest to where I was standing. They weren’t moving, they weren’t breathing, their eyes opened but no movement. The whirl of the wind in the room stilled, and from where the book Falyn must have been reading at one point recently on the table sat, the pages had been turning in the wind, but they were frozen, along with everything else. The last time this happened, was when time froze so Death could talk to us. I turned around, confused, because while the person who had said my voice was a man, it wasn’t Death’s voice but a strange one, a slightly musical voice that I’d never heard before. I turne
