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Chapters (50)
  1. Cover
  2. Dedication
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  5. - THREE -
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  10. - EIGHT -
  11. - NINE -
  12. - TEN -
  13. - ELEVEN -
  14. - TWELVE -
  15. - THIRTEEN -
  16. - FOURTEEN -
  17. - FIFTEEN -
  18. - SIXTEEN -
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  20. - EIGHTEEN -
  21. - NINETEEN -
  22. - TWENTY -
  23. - TWENTY-ONE -
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  27. - TWENTY-FIVE -
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  29. - TWENTY-SEVEN -
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  31. - TWENTY-NINE -
  32. - THIRTY -
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  49. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  50. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“I… I lost a friend,” he said quietly, picking his head back up. “His brother was taken. I didn’t know that, but my friend tried to rescue his brother, too, and I… I stopped him. To save him, but I still stopped him. And now I lost him, just like Cyrus said I would. And I have no idea what he’ll do next.”

Silence, except for the beeping from the machines.

“If I’d just waited another few seconds,” Fort whispered. “Maybe Michael would have changed his mind. Maybe I should have teleported him back too. But the Old Ones were going to attack, and I didn’t… I couldn’t know. But whatever happens next, it’s my fault. Just like you being taken.”

No response.

“Did I do the right thing? Gabriel could have let them loose on our entire world! But he was just trying to save his brother. I don’t know what I should have done! Tell me, please.” He squeezed his father’s hand harder now, not even bothering to stop the tears. “Please, please, please, just tell me what I should do. I don’t know, and I keep messing up!”

Someone knocked on the door, and Fort realized he didn’t have much time left. He cleared his throat and looked up at his father. “You’re going to be okay now,” he said, hoping he wasn’t lying. “Dr. Ambrose and Jia will make sure of that. You’re going to be okay, and we’ll go home, probably with no memories of any of this, and everything will be back to normal. It has to be. And I’ll… I’ll make this up to you, for the rest of my life if that’s what it takes. I’ll—”

The door opened, and Dr. Ambrose entered, closing it softly. “Forsythe,” she said, not unkindly. “I gave you as long as I could. But I need to speak to you about something.”

“What?” he asked, rubbing his eyes again as he let his irritation show. “What is so important? This is my father!”

She sighed. “I know. But something’s happened in the UK, and it won’t wait.”

She reached and flipped on a television above his father’s head, and the news appeared, showing what looked like a strange black dome surrounded by blue.

“Those were satellite pictures,” Dr. Ambrose said as a news anchor appeared on-screen. “Whatever that dome is, it’s covering half the United Kingdom.”

- FORTY-SIX -

FORT’S EYES WIDENED. THE UK? That meant…

Sierra? he thought as loudly as he could.

There was no response.