Chapter 24
Maggie lay gasping and shaking on the ground. The heat from the cavern had gone, and she was as numb as though she had been lying in snow.
“Maggie.” Tammond knelt next to her.
Maggie blinked, trying to focus on his face in the dim, blue light.
“I’m back,” Maggie croaked. Her throat hurt like she had been screaming.
“You never went anywhere.” Tammond lifted her from the ground and cradled her to his chest.
He was warm, and Maggie pulled herself closer to him, shivering.
“I did,” she said. “I did leave here, and I went to the worst places.”
“I heard.” Tammond held Maggie tightly. “I heard everything you said.”
“And that’s how you’re supposed to learn?” Maggie asked, anger welling inside her. “You get to go revisit the worst moments of your life and watch helplessly as peo
