As everyone listened to the conversation, to Carl's monologue about the laws that the immortals were clearly giving the benefit of the doubt, Carl suddenly started screaming in pain and everyone suddenly felt a strange lapse in their systems.
Klaire pushed through, forcing her body to keep moving as an indescribable numbness spread through her mind.
When she finally reached him the screaming had stopped and she was unconscious. A deathly howl left her lips, but not one made to tear at souls, but one that tore at the boundary between realms, Klaire stumbled through the hole carrying Carl.
It wasn't tidy and the portal pushed back against them, but she forced her way through and found herself in the infirmary on Lugaria.
