Chapter 25: Shattered Reflections

"His body must have been too exhausted for the jump." Cliff knelt down and gave Vance’s body a rustle within the transparent chamber. "Vance, wake up. Welcome to the Guild of Dimensional Knights."

"Get off me. I don't need your help..." Vance muttered, groggily pulling himself up. "Just tell me what the hell that was."

"Tunneling. We hopped dimensions manually," Eden answered.

She watched as he stepped across the room, scowling and avoiding eye contact with his two companions. When she first met him on the bed in Despair, Eden thought she had seen something in him...that same power she remembered feeling from Victoria.

Expectations are just that, though, she realized. Maybe my portrait of Victoria was just painted too deeply with nostalgia. There's no way the woman I thought I knew could have raised such a jerk.