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Her tone was serious.

Back home.

She meant that place.

"Really?"

"Yes."

I exhaled. For just a few days, I had to process, and imagined of that universe, that spells, magic, power made it into our world's parallel. Emmanuel and I had always talked endlessly about them. He insisted that we shouldn't trust them, that we simply ran, that perhaps we went crazy, and needed to start a new life. 'It'll only affect the ones around us anyway. You saw that monster, and you saw what Xiao Sang did. We can't run. I believe them anyways,' I reasoned in the end. Then if I were to believe them, if I were to take their side, I would dishonor myself by leaving them.

"I'll come with you."

"What? You can't-"

"I said I'll come with you."

"Those bastards were after your parents, you're only risking your life by following me."