Starcrossed (Starcrossed 1) - Page 88

In the wet air, Helen could hear her pursuers even more clearly,

and she knew they could hear her better, too. Panicked and exhausted,

she blindly tossed herself into the fog and asked her body

to go even faster. On the edge of collapse, she felt her body grow

light and her labored breathing unexpectedly eased up. The jarring

impact on her joints and spine from her gargantuan strides ended

abruptly. She was still moving, but she no longer felt anything except

the cold and the wind that spun her hair into whips. She burst

through the edge of the fog and saw nothing but darkness and stars

around her. There were stars everywhere. She looked down.

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Below her were twinkling lights outlining the edges of a familiar

sideways comma in the middle of the ocean. Looking around for

the airplane that would normally be housing her body at this altitude,

Helen saw her limbs floating in the air, buoyant and sinuous

as if they were submerged in water. She looked down again and

realized that the twinkling comma was her beautiful little island

home. Her vision contracted into a narrowing tube of blackness.

Without a sound, she fainted and fell out of the sky that had so recently

claimed her.

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Chapter Six

It was nighttime in the dry lands. Helen was surprised that

there was such a thing as time here. It confused her so much

that she glanced around, uncertain as to where she was.

After a few moments she decided that, yes, she was in the

dry lands, but this time the hilly terrain was flatter and

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