Time for the Lost by Chess Desalls

Author:Chess Desalls
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Czidor Lore, LLC
Published: 2015-12-08T16:00:00+00:00

WE NEEDED to contact Ivory right away.

Nick was a mess. She’d miss him by now and would freak once she learned what had happened. But she had to know.

With Nick bedbound, we couldn’t contact Ivory by visiting her through the portal to TSTA Headquarters. She also didn’t have a pair of travel glasses that we could use to keep in touch. So, my father agreed to travel to her with his baglamas. I couldn’t believe he was willing. He was about to travel straight to the heart of the travel agency he despised.

I hoped he’d get back soon, even if accompanied by a freaking-out Ivory. I was the worst healer-in-training ever. Lily had a knack for it, though. She would have made a great nurse, but she was also trying to heal—to recover from having been Lost in Susana. That process I knew well. I guessed that was why Lily stayed close to me at the Clock Tower. That and maybe because she recognized me from Susana. She was more my shadow than Ray’s.

After Valcas and my father found me there, they brought me back to life. It was like being pulled out of a bad dream, a nightmare that went on forever, no matter how hard I tried to wake up. I thought I’d break from the pain, but I was trapped. I couldn’t help myself while Lost, and I couldn’t help anyone else. It was as if something tethered me and wouldn’t let go.

When I first saw Edgar’s silhouette, I thought he’d entered my nightmare, as a new resident of Susana. It was bad enough being surrounded by strangers that I couldn’t help. I didn’t want Edgar to suffer too. Even though, logically, I knew he was dead.

“Calla?”

Valcas, also a mess, groaned my name from across the room. It happened every hour, like my own personal alarm clock. He and Nick were positioned side by side in twin beds that my father had brought in from another world. They even had matching blankets and head bandages. It would have been cute it if wasn’t so tragic.

Ray snoozed on one of the floor cushions, similar to where my father slept when he wasn’t out gathering food and other necessities. The guys had insisted that Lily and I share what had been Nick’s bed in the loft. In the end, I convinced Lily to take Nick’s bed. She was still healing. A floor cushion was better than my leaf-bed back at the Fire Falls. And the roughest night behind the falls was a fluffy cloud of restfulness compared to the nightmares of Susana.

Valcas smiled when I approached. He held out a hand. I took an inventory of his bruises as I accepted. His face and the back of his head were banged up pretty badly from having fallen off the Clock Tower. Puckers of red and purple skin peeked out from underneath bandages. His other hand was burned where it had landed during a tumble in the fire. The blanket concealed burns that covered his feet and legs, up to his knees.

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