Chapter 9

Rademos clung to his chest with his right hand feeling as if he had just been hit with a charged up defibrillator. His environment suddenly seemed to expand and he found himself lost in a void. Momentarily, reality faded into oblivion, causing him to be unable to do anything concerning the man he had just sent crashing through the glass window of the coffee shop across the street. He couldn't see anything, not even himself. Also, suddenly, all the things that go bump—or hoot—in the night went quiet. Goosebumps immediately popped up all over Rademos's skin. Adrenaline triggered his body flight or fight response, but there was nothing to fight, and he also didn't know which direction he should run in the darkness, so he froze. His fist curled and he gritted his teeth angrily as he wondered if he'd just been teleported again, though, nothing about the way he felt seemed to suggest he had.

"What the heck? Where am I?" he questioned inwardly.

"Hello," Rademos called into the darkness, bu