Part III: Elsewhere
Chapter 17: Inferno
And landed on Alchera.
Riley and Mykol rolled down a hill of leafy grass, slowed to a stop, stared at each other—she with fear, he with anger.
“What the hell did you do?”
She tried to look innocent but knew she failed. “You had your way out. I wanted mine.”
“This is no escape.”
“Then why did you come?”
“I have something I need to do.”
“But that’s not the reason you first came, right?”
He stood up, looked away from her and tried to focus. “I shouldn’t have told you anything.”
She stood up too. “You’re not the only one with dreams.”
“You think I don’t know that?” He said this so fiercely she staggered back, frightened.
She examined the landscape: snowy mountains, pale river, forests of conifers, cold breeze, yellow-green ground cover that
