44Having been put asleep the only other time she traveled through a Key, Alex thought this was the most bizarre sensation she had ever felt. This wasn’t the same feeling of falling from a tree when she was eight or jumping from the quarries when she was a rebellious sixteen-years-old. Caught in a limbo between floating and falling, the air around her was both warm and cool, with a chill yet humid breeze, and though she could breathe, she felt as though the oxygen around her would soon dissipate and the next breath could be her last. It was only an instant, but felt like an eternity, and she held onto Reylor tight during their descent, not only to keep him close after all the effort it took to get to that point, but also to keep herself from feeling as though she was going to drift away int
