Chapter 9
Madeline opened her eyes, immediately registering the unfamiliar surroundings and the time-traveling experience. Unlike the previous trip with Arik where they had been transported to the past in an instant without losing consciousness, this time was different. It seemed as if they had traveled through a passage of emptiness. There had been no sound, no sense of anything—and certainly there were no memories.
She sat right up and saw a small bushland on the right and a hillside sloping slightly toward the left. She couldn’t tell where they were, but she was sure they were no longer in England.
Then she felt the pain. It wasn’t from the travel. It was from loss—the emptiness of losing something very important in her life. She couldn’t figure out what the exact feeling was, but sh
