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The. Spell. Worked!
“More. Show me more,” Bel ordered with excitement. “I want to see every base we’ve cataloged.”
I grinned and raced from the command center, twisting down the winding hallways. My smile could not be erased. The Breaker had done it. She had saved our goddamned world.
Kimber turned a corner ahead of me, sprinting right at me—the biggest smile ever on her face, matching my own.
She shouted, “It worked!”
“It worked!” I screamed back.
The world tipped sharply on its axis as a boom vibrated the very air I breathed in, coating my lungs. A blinding light flared and pulsed directly between us, so bright and pure it was suffocating.
I stumbledhard.