Max is sucked, screaming, arms and legs struggling towards and through the window.
No!
The change is immediate as he passes into nothingness. The void around him is impossibly cold, the air rushing through barely keeping him alive, and he knows if he breathes in he will die. His mouth almost drops open as he sees the basket, oh so close, if only I can-
Bingo. He grabs it, and as his lungs start to burn, he struggles with the casing for the Orb inside.
It flies out of his grasp.
No! he thinks, No! And though he swims towards it, the air losing its last, his tears freezing in his eyes, he can't move forward. But then the comet of black rushes towards him, but instead of spearing him as it did Anna, it nudges the Orb towards him.
He doesn't think twice. He grabs the orb.
Lol not really a chapter, pretty short! Sorry!!
--DraconisSolutus
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A Looming Tower
FantasiAt first, there was the Haunting, and Anna Drey survived. Then there was the First Project, and she made it again... But now there is the Second Project, and it's different than the others. It's worse. And it's designed for five of the children avai...
