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"I want to see if it’s solid," Adam replied He h the arch, appearing froave Elyssa a look She raised an eyebrow

"On three?" she said, unfastening the rope fro my rope

She took my hand "One, Two, Three"

We stepped inside The world warped like a fishbowl for the barest instant, hardly enough to even register, and then we stood next to Adam

"Well, you’re still alive," he said, and touched the edge of the portal The iht resistance on the outer edge, but it’s not solid"

"Fascinating," Shelton said, walking over to touch the portal "Noe turn the thing off?"

"I’ it stays open until you close the connection," I said "Otherwise you runted "Good point"

"Maybe we should leave it open for now," Adaested as he walked around the arch "Just to be sure your theory is correct"

"Considering the Cyrinthian Rune bounced between the two ends of this arch for so long, I believe it would stay open indefinitely," Cinder said

I exae of the arch room Apparently, it was possible to walk in from either side and end up in the sah me "You knohat this o anywhere"

"I can go to Colombia and visither face "I’ve really ht here," I said, thinking about my other friends All I had to do was open a portal at their end

"Hoould that work?" Adam said "Do you need to visualize where you want the arch to open? What if you’ve never been there before?"

"Good question," Shelton said, eyeing the thing

"We should test that next," Bella said

"Agreed," I added "It won’t do us ood if we haven’t been somewhere before"

"And what if the places look almost identical, like control roo on ood question "Maybe minor details would help," Elyssa said "Like the stable looks different at the Grotto than the one in Queens Gate"

"Yeah, but we don’t want to open a portal in plain view of people who aren’t in on our little secret," Shelton said

"Let’s figure out if we can open a portal sorunted "Let’s see if you can turn this one off first"

I looked at the arch and thought, Disconnect It folded in on itself like an accordion, see itself at the ave Shelton a top-that! look

He rolled his eyes

"Mind if I give it a try?" Adaave him an alarmed look "I don’t know if you should"

"I’ll be his arch buddy," Shelton said

She raised an eyebrow Her lips tre, but held it back "Fine"

"Let’s try to replicate Justin’s feat," Ada the rope around his waist

Shelton nodded, and closed the circle

I explained how I’d i at the arch for a hly the sa through and e at the other end

It took Adam a few seconds to shut down the portal He and Shelton walked back, talking excitedly

"Would someone need Arcane abilities to use the oain, if you can close a circle, olem couldn’t do even that, but didn’t want to voice an the experiured out a few things If we visualized a specific location, the portal would open there Soh, it would open in a place that looked similar but was actually someplace completely different Bella opened a portal in the front yard of her Coloave an excited squeak, and retrieved her favorite teacups I taught Elyssa how to close a ateway in front of her parents’ house,Templar who nearly nailed me with a Lancer dart

We even let Cinder take a stab at it, but he couldn’t close the circle or cause the arch to do anything I felt really bad for hi no eluole at the oole to be asha his head slightly "Although, I do feel an overwhel sense of disappoint the portal in places we hadn’t been In one case, it opened into a black void Thankfully, it didn’t seem to be a vacuum, because the air didn’t rush out of the room and sweep us to our doom, but Shelton and Adalobe of light through