Page 94 of Bizarre Bonds
The rift expands farther with every thud of my pulse: wider, higher, thicker. It was already huge, and now it’s at least a hundred times larger than the biggest portal to the shadow realm I’ve ever seen.
Rollick curses under his breath. His jaw tightens as if he doesn’t like what he’s about to say. “Stay here. We don’t want to risk getting any closer. We’ll just have to wait and?—”
His phone starts ringing. He cuts himself off to yank it from his pocket.
At the same moment, a thicker warbling of energy passes through the air, as potent as if I’m standing right in front of the rift rather than far off down the road. The portal’s hazy outline surges farther even faster, swelling across the terrain and up toward the sky like a tidal wave.
And then it crashes.
The immense rift topples over, belly-flopping across the entire sprawl of the city in a spew of shadow.
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