The moment Jayden walked through the front door of the house, the sheer, crushing exhaustion of the day finally caught up to him.
Between outrunning a state-of-the-art supertrain, encountering a reality-bending witch, and subjugating an entire colony of Earth Smashers under his new vanguard, Cain, his physical and mental limits had been stretched to the absolute breaking point.
He bypassed the kitchen entirely, having decided to skip dinner, and trudged up the stairs. He entered his room and collapsed face-first onto his mattress, not even bothering to take off his jacket.
He wanted nothing more than to just sleep. But his mind refused to shut down.
His thoughts spun in a dizzying vortex, spiraling back to a single entity.
Coraline.
