CHAPTER 47Having forgotten she was sitting at the head of her bed, Mara attempted to jump to her feet and lost her balance, stumbling backward and crashing into the wall above the headboard, setting off several electrical snaps, as her head and arm passed through the edge of the static sphere that filled the room. She gave up trying to reestablish her balance and tumbled to the mattress, landing on her side, splayed across the pillows. Clawing at the bedspread, she pulled herself up into a sitting position and demanded, “What have you done with my brother?”
The other Mara raised a finger and drew a circle in the air, pointed to the bubble around them. “Does anything look different to you?”
“Answer my question,” Mara said. “Where is Sam?”
Her counterpart’s eyes looked upward, as if she w
