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So warm and wet landed on his arht fluttering across his skin He swatted it aatched it tu code

"Faster!" he yelled, barely hearing hiht next to hi Bryson ran a few steps ahead, pounding the loose pave chaos was about to overtake them

Michael focused on the Portal Only forty or fifty feet away It was fading, a ghostly pillar from a drearound that faded into a cruibberish code He watched in shock as the Portal fell into the abyss Just like that Gone

Michael stopped He sucked in huge, gulping breaths as he turned in a circle, watched the world disintegrate around him Sarah was there, and he pulled her into his arroup hug Noise and destruction everywhere

Sarah had leaned close to Michael’s ear, and he was sure she said soh he didn’t hear it Just as he felt her warround below them collapsed and they fell into the chasht

Sound

Wind

Falling

Michael lost hold of his friends and ept away

Chapter 16: The Infinite Ladder

Michael didn’t knohen it ended

There was no crash landing His Aura didn’t find itself broken fro onto some hard-packed land one There was no sound at all Only a numb silence A silence so complete it hurt his ears Yet he lay on his back in a dark, still space

He gently rolled over onto his side, then sat up and assessed how he felt He expected pain, or at least a few aches, but he was fine, if a little dizzy The darkness around hi down on hiot to his feet and shuffled around, hoping to find a wall, a chair, soround under his feet and that blaring silence

"Sarah?" he called His voice sounded strange to his own ears, as if he had a cold and his head was stuffed up "Bryson? You guys out there?"

"Mi-chael"

He ju around in a circle, desperate to see That voice It was unsettling …from another dimension

"Mi-chael"