She knew it the way she knew her own name.The way she knew Finn's voice even after four years.The way she knew she belonged with him.
She stepped forward again.Unafraid and eager, she sought the shadow.
The air rippled.
A soft, low hum vibrated through the ground beneath her feet.The wind whipped harder, pulling at her clothes, her hair, her breath.The world blurred at the edges, colors fading into muted shades of gray and gold.
Her heart pounded so hard it hurt.
"Finn," she whispered, voice trembling."I'm coming."
The ripple deepened.She shielded her eyes from the wind, squinting at the fate distortion in the center of the road like heat rising off asphalt.It widened as she approached, stretching, bending, darkening into something deeper.
A shadow.
A doorway.
A tear in the world.
This was the moment she'd imagined a thousand times.Her throat tightened.The moment she'd walked miles for.The moment she'd prayed for.The moment she feared never finding again.
She stepped closer.
The wind roared, swirling around her in a tight circle, lifting her hair and tugging at her clothes.The air tasted metallic, electric, and alive.
Her pulse hammered.She reached out a hand.
The shadow pulsed in return.
The world flickered.
And then—
The ground dropped out from under her.
She gasped, stumbling forward as the wind yanked her into the shimmer.Her vision blurred, the world twisting into streaks of light and darkness.Her ears rang.Her stomach flipped.She squeezed her eyes shut.Her scream was carried away in the wind.
The shadow swallowed her whole.
And Kallie fell.
Not down.Not up.Not sideways.
Just...through.
Through the veil.Through the world.Through the place she'd been searching for every day.
She was going to Finn.
