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The portal was too small for anyone to climb through, so I slipped a finger into it like sliding one into a butthole to look for a prostate.
A thrill went through my finger as though I had just pulled off thick gloves and felt air and grass and sun and a furry pet and a loved one’s skin for the first time all at once.
I smiled. Magic.
“Alyssa!” Ram was yelling. “If you’re going to do something, it needs to be three minutes ago.”
“Hold your flying dick,” I snapped.
But before I had even finished, a new voice was ordering everyone on the ground with our hands behind our heads. The guards’ backup was here.
I tried to ignore the shouting and focused on the bit of magic sparking along my index finger. It wasn’t much, but fuck, it felt like coming back to life after being buried six feet under. Taking a deep breath, I let my eyes drift closed and focused on that bit of power, on the sensation of the portal, warm and swirling and alien, and I muttered a portal spell.
The press of the portal against my finger lessened, and I opened my eyes to see it widening until it swallowed my hand, then my arm. I grinned. Even with only an inch of my power, I still kicked ass.
“Run for the portal,” Ram roared as though he was leading an army into battle.
Feet pounded on the floor and next to me, Beverly whimpered.
“Stop them,” a guard was shouting behind me.
I turned my head to see if I could direct a magic attack from the portal to the guards. But before I could even see what was happening, a skeleton arm shot out of the portal, wrapped around my face, and yanked me through.
Chapter 13
Thecold,hardhandof death let go of me. My stomach launched into my throat as I tumbled through the air and landed on an orange shag carpet.
I rolled to get away from my attacker, but my back hit a wall and I glanced up at a poster of some kind of lizard alien holding its eight thumbs up. In big block letters, it read, “Human-ohs! They’re crunchy.”
Fucking figures, I’d end up in a bubble dimension that was a ’70s porno set for aliens who eat humans—not in a cunnilingus way but a literal human jerky way. At least the giant bone hand was gone.
As I pushed myself to my feet, I groaned. Fuck, doing dangerous shit like this didn’t even faze me before. Now every fucking muscle hurt.
“I’m getting too old for this,” I muttered. I couldn’t help but smile anyway. Because along with the pain, my skin tingled, my blood sang, and my senses felt like they were a hundred times stronger.
My magic was back.
At the far end of the orange room, the portal swirled like an alien asshole waiting for a plug. A skeleton hand unfolded from the edges of the portal as though reaching out from the space between worlds. It lifted Beverly through the portal, and unlike with me, it placed her gently on the shag.
It reached back through the portal and tossed Jag, Elliot, Moe, and Ram through in quick succession, then folded back into the portal. The rainbow swirl vanished.
Well, that made no sense.
The three musicians screamed as they flew through the air and hit the ground, but Ram was silent. He waved a hand. His fingertips sparked dark purple, and his flight slowed until he landed nearly on his feet.
My every muscle tensed, and my magic flared in my blood like fever.
I had helped put him in prison, and Ram was one to hold a grudge. He had held one for years against his father and Juniper. He was going to strike at me, and I had no backup. No way for help to even get here. Dark purple energy sparked along my fingertips and made my small hairs stand on end.
He stared back at me across the orange shag, his hands flaming with dark fire. Even though I knew an attack was coming, my heart raced when I looked at him and my stomach fluttered as though filled with butterflies. Something flickered in the air between us, and I spared a glance down to see a stream of magic like a sunbeam stretch from my chest to his.
I frowned. Three more identical shimmering ribbons reached out of my body. My gaze followed them to Jag, Elliot, and Moe, where they groaned and climbed to their feet off the floor. My skin goosebumped as I looked at them, and my heart did backflips. Without thinking, I took a step toward them before I caught myself and whirled back to Ram.
He stared at the magic that connected us, his dark eyes wide and stunned. I wanted to trace the lines of his face.
With your tongue instead,my brain said.Then your labia.
Oh my god, that doesn’t even make sense!
