Across Worlds with You, Part 9 (Final) by Kit Campbell
Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4Part 5Part 6Part 7 Part 8 Across Worlds with You, Part 9Kit Campbell “Okay,” Theo said for the fifteenth time. “So, just for the record, we might die instantly.” “You said that already,” Will said. He should be worried about potentially dying instantly, but for some reason he wasn’t. Maybe his brain had gone back to the psychotic episode theory. Maybe he’d bought into the whole prophecy thing. Or maybe he innately trusted Theo’s magic. Or just Theo. Anyway, Theo or his magic hadn’t led Will astray yet. They were standing in yet another waystation. While Theo opened the gate—was he getting sick of opening gates? Had he ever opened a gate before he’d come to save Will?—Will stared around at it. This one was a light blue stone, almost like turquoise or aquamarine. Who had created the waystations? Why were they all subtly different? Or maybe they weren’t there at all—maybe it was just how their brains, or Will’s, at least, perceived it. He should ask Theo what he saw. Although not right now. The blue of the gate opening illuminated the corridor in front of Will, bringing it up to daylight levels. He turned to find Theo packing his supplies back into his bag. They’d packed the amulets as well. “Okay,” Theo said yet again. “Let’s go over this one more time. I’ve enchanted these”—he indicated two new, different amulets in his hand—“to block the Darkness’s powers so we can walk through it without…