Amelia POV
I could feel the portal calling to me. It was like it had a heartbeat and I could hear it thrumming beneath the lake. I felt entranced by it. The urge to reach it was overpowering, like my mind had been overtaken by the desire to touch the portal.
“Well!” Silas snapped, pulling me from my reverie.
“We have to wait. It’s not visible yet.” The witch answered.
She sashayed over to one of the larger rocks and sat down. I looked back to the water, hypnotized by the pulse I could feel, when I felt a pressure on my shoulders snapping me back to reality. I allowed myself to be pushed down to the floor by Silas, who sat beside me. I turned to look at him in disbelief, he turned and smiled and looked over my shoulder at my mom, I could hear her feet crushing against the stones on the
