Cassie could not escape the building through the door or through the crumbling walls — that would only make her an easy target, allowing the Dreamspawn's thralls to litter her body with more wounds.
Neither could she escape into the Dream Realm by pulling on her tether, since there was not enough time. Of all the futures she could sense, most ended in a violent sea of pain and agony…
The depths of that savage sea were dark and heinous enough to make her blood run cold.
Still, there was hope.
There always was, after all.
Raising a hand, Cassie grasped the blue gemstone set into one of her earrings.
The earring was a Transcendent Memory she had purchased at a high price once, a long time ago, from the armory of Clan Valor — the other was a mundane item created to match it. That Memory was a consumable charm that could only be used once, transporting its master to a predetermined point in space across a vast distance.
