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I’ll be there in ten minutes.
Tears welled in my eyes, and I pushed my long, damp, blonde hair off my face.
A woman sat down on the bench beside me, but I didn’t look her way. I was so tired of lying about being okay.
“What’s your name?” she asked me.
“Rory,” I said quietly.
“Pretty. I’m Serae.”
If she was asking about my name, she wasn’t asking about the bruise on my face, at least.
“You’re crying, Rory,” the woman added.
My throat swelled.
Dammit, couldn’t we stick to the names?
Why did we need to talk at all?
“There’s a bruise on your cheek,” she added. “I can help you, you know.”
My head jerked toward her.
The woman was gorgeous, with white, curly hair, dark skin, and the biggest blue eyes I’d ever seen.
Something about her was… otherworldly.
That was probably just because she’d offered to help me, though.
“How?” My voice edged on desperation. “Nothing has worked.
My phone was vibrating again, but neither of us acknowledged its motion beside me on the bench.
“Give me your hand.” She held out her palm.
I didn’t know how that would help, but I didn’t stop and wonder. My hand was in hers a heartbeat later.
The moment our skin touched, light swelled around us. My lips parted in wonder—or horror—as the light swallowed everything around me for a moment.
The woman’s grip on my hand tightened and didn’t let go, not that I tried to pull away.
Who was she?
Whatwas she?
Did she have some kind of… magic?
Damn, I hoped so.
The light faded a moment later.
When my vision cleared, my lips parted.
The river in front of me was gone completely, replaced by a wall of rich, black stone with swirling gray streaks. There were deep, winding cracks in the stone, and small plants grew from them at an angle, jutting toward me.
I turned around halfway, and my jaw legitimately fell open when my gaze moved over the horizon.
