Still holding the lamp in one hand, he reached out and slapped the round disk onto my one bare shoulder. Only then did he step back, giving me the space I wanted. He didn’t even take the lamp from my hand. Glancing down at the disk, I watched as a series of lights blinked yellow, the pattern looked like a…an electronic button.
“What—”
I reached up to pull the disk off my skin, but I felt a sizzle, every hair on my body standing up on end. Then it was like the world twisted me from the inside out. Painful. Strange. I tried to scream, but there was no air. Nothing to hold on to. Just…nothing.
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CJ
CJ
I stumbled, putting my arm out instinctively, and it slapped against a wall. I blinked, felt nauseated, realized I’d transported. When I had left Earth, the last thing I’d remembered w
