Chapter 6000 Laying The Formation
- Warm sunlight spilled across the step outside the lodge. Bamboo leaves swayed, shaking thin slats of shadow over the flagstones.
- Lyza squinted into the brightness. Jared and Luther stood beside her a heartbeat ago. Now their outlines shimmered, slipped between light and shadow, and were simply gone.
- Her fingers curled against her palm. Breath held, she shaped a prayer she dared not speak: Come back alive, both of you.