Chapter 3
WynThose side effects, though. No joke.
Reality swam back into focus, tingling and filling her head with static. Two aliens stood at the edge of the pad, looking serious and determined. Neither was Lorran. Disappointment rolled through her the same moment an invisible force squeezed her lungs.
This couldn’t be right.
She gasped again, breath rattling but not seeming to fill her lungs. She sucked in another breath. Everything felt tight and her vision darkened. One hand went to her throat, and the other fumbled for the inhaler in her bag’s front pocket.
Was an asthma attack a side effect of teleportation? She did not have that on her bingo card of unhappiness.
She administered a dose and breathed in. Clutching the inhaler in one hand, she counted slowly to thirty. She had go
