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Kara stared down at it for several long seconds Then she pushed back from the table…

… and walked straight out of the room

Thirty-Five

There were certain indicators Kara had learned to look for whenever she was about to experience a retrocognitive episode One of thele Another, a distinct sour taste in her mouth

Right now it felt like she’d squeezed the juice of an entire lele? It waselse

Kara put her hand to her forehead She couldn’t even feel her fingers It was like touching another person, and she recoiled quickly froeness of the experience

The entire tiraph

The photo…

Her eyes were drawn to Rudolph Northrop’s table More specifically, to the bell It was ser than the the bell itself

Kara’s legs still h her eyes remained locked on the picture Soized Another few people round, really Itto someone else Kara was only barely there Just barely—

The ‘whoosh’ came, and suddenly she was sone’s lobby, but so , for one The noise, the heat… the people too Kara saw men and women walk by, almost transparent to the eye They left trails as they moved, and they moved either too slowly or too quickly to be real Almost like a piece of fil Jaain

A man stood out to her, tall and wizened He had a rounded, ri in front of the massive fireplace at the back end of the lobby, and with another ‘whoosh’ of sound and wind, Kara was standing there too

The rabbed hold of so near the fireplaceof stone on stone She saw the shift of so heavy A swirl of powder, or dust

As she watched, the man reached into his pocket and pulled out a small silver bell The bell He secreted it someplace with his hands, and Kara had to lean in to see what it was:

A keystone?