Chapter 98

I stared after it, desperate to understand what had just happened.

A broken sob sounded from beside me. I turned to Ellison, the real Ellison, and threw myself over the table rubble to get to her. As soon as I gathered her into my arms, she gasped as if she'd just won a race with her own shadow. My sister, always so logical and stoic, almost always wore her emotions internally. An ache speared hot and sharp through my chest that she had gone through this.

She pulled away and blinked around the room with wide eyes, her face paler than I'd ever seen it, and gripped me hard around the forearm. "I-I couldn't find you and... I had no idea where I was. I woke up somewhere I'd never been, and I didn't know how to get back to you and..." She hugged me hard again, her whole body quaking.