Chapter : Rafe

The voices went silent. Why were they silent? They'd stopped speaking to Rafe the moment he hit the surface of the planet, a planet they had insisted he visit.

And now they're not talking. That should have made him happy. Finally, his mind belonged to him again. Except, a mind empty of voices was a mind all alone, so he didn't know what to think when the rock wall sucked them through.

Emma, not surprisingly, screamed - and how many times had that fixed anything?

Never. But it didn't stop her from shrieking each time.

Jubilation proved Mikhail's emotion of choice, while Rafe? He felt relief because his head had no sooner traversed the strangely malleable barrier when the voices returned, crowing excitedly, Herein lies the second marker.