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“I have to get that flask.”
Hannah barks out a humorless laugh. “You think Ackealenvyos is just going to hand it over?”
“If I ask nicely…”
“Ellister.”
“I was being sarcastic. I can do that, too, sometimes.”
“Smartass.” At least that brought a bit of humor into her eyes.
“I’m hoping Envy might be able to get it from him.”
“And you think Envy’s going to, what? Give it back to us?”
“Maybe. If he wants to get away from this place, I’m his only option.”
“We arenotadopting that psycho. He made his bed. I vote we leave his ass here where he can rot.”
I grin a little at her viciousness.
She’s keeping up with my quick strides with a pep in her step. Out of habit, I hook my free hand under her arm, but she doesn’t need my help walking.
For the time being, she isn’t sick. She’s better now because we’re in a different universe.
A new universe…
… where the sky is darkened, all the buildings are ruined, and every living thing is dead.
A land that’s been… lost.
My feet falter, and I stumble to a stop just a stone’s throw away from the edge of the arena.
I scan the horizon, and the familiarity of the barren landscape becomes too recognizable to ignore.
“The Lost Land,” I mutter to myself.
“What?” Hannah asks, but I’m too busy having an epiphany to answer.
The mystery of the Lost Land is solved. This day, this event… this is how it came into being.
Talk about mind-blowing. I can barely wrap my head around the surreal knowledge.
All that time I spent in this place. The confusion, the misery. I was in a prison of my own making.
“It was me,” I rasp, my gaze bouncing to all the elements of the wrecked world.
“What was you?” Hannah gives me a confused look.
The wind picks up, howling as it blows over the mouth of the stadium.
I turn to face her and repeat it louder. “It was me. It’s my fault—The Lost Land. I didn’t realize it until just now. I’d always wondered how it was created, wondered where such an awful place came from.”
“That’s where we are now?” Hannah doesn’t seem as afraid as she should be as she curiously studies our surroundings.
She should be terrified. I know I am.
The destruction spell won’t stop. It’ll keep spreading until every inch of what used to be Valora is ravaged.
