Eight
“Why didn’t you just bring them here the normal way?”
“That would have been no fun.”
“Oh Airlea, this wasn’t about having fun. You need to grow up.”
“I am.”
“Then behave like it.”
Consciousness is slowly creeping up on me. And not in a good way.
My head hurts, my body aches, everything is spinning. Basically, I want to get back to sleep. But I know that would be a bad idea.
In between the pulsing pain in my head, I remember what happened. The crack. Alis jumping into it. Then, nothing.
Alis?
No response.
“Why are there only three of them? I thought she had four?”
That voice again. It’s that of a woman, and while she sounds quite old, she speaks with authority. Someone you don’t want to cross.
“The Portal closed before the others could get through.” A younger woman. She s
