My heart sank. That was their plan? I didn’t even know how I’d opened the door the first time! I shook my head frantically, and Mia nodded, equally urgent, her brows drawn together.

Oh my God. I bit my tongue. What choice did I have?

And then everything happened at once.

Alexei seemed to flash and a steady stream of flame, more concentrated and powerful than I’d realized he could produce, emitted from his cupped hands like a laser beam directed straight at Priya. She shrieked and dove aside. The other hunters opened fire on Alexei with their stun guns, but he’d already thrown himself straight backward, landing on top of Reed and toppling him to the floor. In the same moment, Mia’s eyes narrowed, and everyone vanished—or at least it looked that way. We were still there, and completely vulnerable.

Fortunately, the hunters didn’t seem to catch on. “Find them!” Priya shrieked, and they fanned across the hall, blocking our access.

Mia gasped beside me, and something shifted in my vision: my own arm, rematerializing. No no no, I screamed inwardly. Not now. I willed us invisible, intangible, urging Mia’s power to work.

My arm vanished again, almost too quickly to be coincidence, and Mia’s breathing steadied beside me. I blinked. I hadn’t really helped her, had I?

The hunters advanced steadily. They had the sense not to start shooting blindly, but they also weren’t about to let us slip by. At this rate, they’d be on us in seconds.

Unless I saved us. I didn’t know how the portal I’d created worked. I’d only made one once, more or less by accident, and it had only moved me through a thin barrier. But then, that was all I had to do now. I had access to an exterior wall, one I knew led to Obsidian’s docking ring and not into space. Just do what you did before, Kenzie. Somehow. With a whole bunch more people. And try to make sure no one gets stuck halfway between the ship and the station.

I drew my shoulders down my back, laying my hands on the wall and ignoring the voice screaming at me to stop trying the impossible. The first time I’d done this, there was an actual door. What if my portals only worked when I had an opening available? Maybe I couldn’t open space between walls. Or maybe I couldn’t yet, maybe the power was still developing, maybe . . .

But we were out of options. My mind raced, exploring other ideas even as I pressed against the wall and screwed my eyes shut. What if we tripped one of them, got our hands on their stun gun, took them hostage? Except I had the sense that these bounty hunters would cheerfully shoot one of their own along with us. Not a fatal blow, just enough to put us all down temporarily. We’d obviously underestimated both their competence and their dedication.