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swells. From baseball played in the streets and the double-Dutch girls chanting over the rhythm of their one-two feet and neighbors on their stoops talking late into summer nights. He was from Harlem’s great heart.
It showed him the way.
He was from his brother, Memphis, whom he missed more than anybody, and he was from the Diviners, the family he’d made along the way. He, Isaiah Campbell, was from the future that needed him. He was tomorrow.
He would show them the way.
Up ahead, at the edge of the nightmare, the portal between worlds was shrinking to a narrow doorway of blue. Within seconds, it would close, trapping him here in the land of the dead forever. But Isaiah was no longer afraid. He was carried by the hands of so many spirits, so many stories pushing him forward. He could hear their voices like a song getting louder and louder, letting him know there was a story and a song and a way. He opened his mouth and swallowed it down. It pierced the broken shell of his body. Came out in swords of light shining everywhere.
Isaiah smiled.
And then he leaped.
Silence.
Shadow.
And light.
HOPE ON THE ROAD
Where am I?
Am I alive?
Silence.
Then:
“Evil, that you?”
Theta! Yes, yes, it’s me!
“Hiya.”
Hiya.
“Princess, you okay?” Memphis’s voice. Stronger than it had sounded before.
“Oh, Poet, I am now.”
Sam? Where’s Sam?
Silence.
Evie saw nothing yet. It was as if her atoms were still forming. Becoming something new.
“Henry, you better not have done something stupid like die.” Ling being Ling.
And Henry’s answer: “Miss Chan, looks like you’re stuck with me for a while longer.”
Sam. Where are you?
Evie’s eyes fluttered open. The pale light hurt, and she had to blink several times. With each blink, a strange, alien landscape greeted her. It had no form she could discern just yet.
“Am I… are we… alive?” She’d said that out loud. She had a mouth.
“Yeah. I think so. My ribs hurt something fierce.” Memphis.
