The thoughts that ran through my head at that moment were terrifying.
What was happening?
Was I taken by a time monster?
WHAT WAS HAPPENING?
When I heard Lira's voice, I released a breath I didn't know I was holding. I had never felt so relieved. “Don’t let them see us,” she hissed. Her eyes were wide, shimmering with disbelief and... amusement?
“Are we in the past?” I whispered against her fingers.
“Only by a sliver,” she muttered. “Five minutes. You flung us backward.”
“Is that… bad?”
“Well, it’s not great,” she whispered, peeking out from behind the tree. “But at least we didn’t land during your birth or something.”
I groaned. “So what now?”
“We wait. Let them pass. Then I’ll show you how to leap forward again.” She glanced at me with a wide grin. “Look at your face. You panicked.”
“You dragged me into a tree like we were running from death.”
“We kind of were. Time death. You don’t want to meet yourself, not unless you like the idea of rupturing your mind into a thousand timelines.
