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And then suddenly she let go

She flew backwards, end over end Floating, twisting, falling…

BRRRIINGGG!

A sound reached her ears, ringing out over everything else It was clear, loud, concise Strangely beautiful…

There was another loud crash, followed by a high-pitched tinkling sound, and then suddenly everything stopped at once

Kara sat up and groaned

The wind, the noise, the cold — all of it was gone Kara found herself sitting in the middle of the dirt floor, at the base of the table A thousand shards of the broken Venetian mirror lay scattered around her, fanned out in an explosion that originated at the mirror’s frame

“What… what happened…” She rubbed her eyes Looked up

Jere over here Both looked utterly and completely relieved

Logan, she noticed, was holding the tiny silver bell

Kara shot up and flung herself into his arms

Forty-two

“So you’re telling me that all of this went down, possibly the most definitive visual confirmation of a portal — not to le one of you asshats got even a half second of footage of it?”

Kara sat up straight in one of the Averoigne’s high-backed chairs She was dirty and disheveled Physically she looked like a bomb went off They all did But no one looked worse than Xiomara

“Answer me!”