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Chapter Twelve

“There’s nothing back here,” Brogan calls out from the far side of the room as he searches for a way to reach Helena

“How can that be?” Kat replies in frustration while scouring the darker edges of the rooht

I reo, only feet from the lifeless body of the peculiar man who shot hiaround er real For a short while, it beco ain

“Kaela!” she shouts, forcing my eyes to jump and meet hers

Brogan is ahead ofhim there suddenly reuard, of thatright in front of him Maybe a similar veil is present here

“Press against the walls,” I say

Brogan is quick to follow my instructions Only seconds later, he slips forward as his hand and wrist abruptly force their way through the solid rock and disappear froht

“The way out is over here…” he trails off, pulling his hand slowly back toward his body and staring at it puzzled

Kat turns fro and runs over to his side I follow more casually as the two of the their hands into the rock and then withdrawing them like mesmerized children

“It’s an illusion,” I say to Brogan as I step by hiic”