Chapter One Sarah I’m staring at a neon portal that’s floating in the sky. It’s a beautiful shade of cobalt blue and buzzes with a low, electric hum. I’ve been photographing all the strange objects that have been falling from the sky in our small town for the last few days. It started with these glowing blue orbs, but now it’s full-fledged weird. I’m a journalist for a small paper in a town where nothing much happens. This is big news. But as I photograph this neon portal, I can’t help but think that I’m going to get laughed out of my job. The image is too bizarre. So, I’m standing here with my camera, trying to figure out how to describe this thing. It’s about the size of a minivan and it’s floating about forty feet off the ground. Like a window into another dimension. “Hello,” a voice says from behind me. I drop my camera and spin around to find…a girl. She looks about my age, maybe a little younger. She’s got blood-red eyes and black wings. She’s the spitting image of every demon I’ve ever seen in a creepy movie. Except for her eyes. They’re glowing with an intensity that I’ve never seen before. They’re so bright that when she looks in my direction, her gaze burns a hole right through me. “Ah,” she says, shying away from me and cowering behind the portal. “Don’t kill me.” “What?” I say, looking around. “No one’s trying to hurt you.” She looks around frantically for a moment and then peeks back at me. “Who are you talking to?” I’m about to answer when I hear a strange noise overhead. I look up just in time to see a shadowy figure fall from the sky. It crashes into the ground with an impact that shakes the earth. When I look back up, the girl is gone. “Sarah?” a voice calls from behind me. I turn to see my best friend Molly hurrying toward me. “Are you okay?” she asks, looking at my wide eyes. “Uh, yeah,” I say, shaking my head. “Just…looking at this thing.” She follows my gaze to the neon portal that’s still hanging in the air. “I was just getting some pictures of it,” I say, picking up my camera off the ground and holding it up for her to see. “Nice,” she says, reaching me and looking up at the portal. We’re both silent for a moment as we take in the sight of it. “What do you think it is?” she asks, finally breaking the silence. “I don’t know,” I say. “But it’s not from this world.” Molly smirks at me and rolls her eyes. “What?” I ask, frowning at her. “You were always such a skeptic,” she says, shaking her head at me. “Look at you now.” “Says the woman who’s been obsessed with aliens since we were kids.” She grins at me and shrugs one shoulder. “Point taken.” “So, what do you think?” I ask, sucking in a breath and looking back up at the portal. “Aliens? Some sort of new technology?” “I don’t know,” she says, shaking her head and looking down at me again. “But I would love to get inside and check it out.” “Yeah,” I say dreamily, my head in the clouds for a moment as I imagine all the possibilities.

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Chapter One

Sarah

I’m staring at a neon portal that’s floating in the sky. It’s a beautiful shade of cobalt blue and buzzes with a low, electric hum.

I’ve been photographing all the strange objects that have been falling from the sky in our small town for the last few days. It started with these glowing blue orbs, but now it’s full-fledged weird.

I’m a journalist for a small paper in a town where nothing much happens. This is big news. But as I photograph this neon portal, I can’t help but think that I’m going to get laughed out of my job. The image is too bizarre.

So, I’m standing here with my camera, trying to figure out how to describe this thing. It’s about the size of a minivan and it’s floating about forty feet off the ground. Like a window into another dimension.

“Hello,” a voice says from behind me.

I drop my camera and spin around to find…a girl. She looks about my age, maybe a little younger. She’s got blood-red eyes and black wings. She’s the spitting image of every demon I’ve ever seen in a creepy movie.

Except for her eyes. They’re glowing with an intensity that I’ve never seen before. They’re so bright that when she looks in my direction, her gaze burns a hole right through me.

“Ah,” she says, shying away from me and cowering behind the portal. “Don’t kill me.”

“What?” I say, looking around. “No one’s trying to hurt you.”

She looks around frantically for a moment and then peeks back at me. “Who are you talking to?”

I’m about to answer when I hear a strange noise overhead. I look up just in time to see a shadowy figure fall from the sky.

It crashes into the ground with an impact that shakes the earth. When I look back up, the girl is gone.

“Sarah?” a voice calls from behind me.

I turn to see my best friend Molly hurrying toward me.

“Are you okay?” she asks, looking at my wide eyes.

“Uh, yeah,” I say, shaking my head. “Just…looking at this thing.”

She follows my gaze to the neon portal that’s still hanging in the air.

“I was just getting some pictures of it,” I say, picking up my camera off the ground and holding it up for her to see.

“Nice,” she says, reaching me and looking up at the portal.

We’re both silent for a moment as we take in the sight of it.

“What do you think it is?” she asks, finally breaking the silence.

“I don’t know,” I say. “But it’s not from this world.”

Molly smirks at me and rolls her eyes.

“What?” I ask, frowning at her.

“You were always such a skeptic,” she says, shaking her head at me. “Look at you now.”

“Says the woman who’s been obsessed with aliens since we were kids.”

She grins at me and shrugs one shoulder. “Point taken.”

“So, what do you think?” I ask, sucking in a breath and looking back up at the portal. “Aliens? Some sort of new technology?”

“I don’t know,” she says, shaking her head and looking down at me again. “But I would love to get inside and check it out.”

“Yeah,” I say dreamily, my head in the clouds for a moment as I imagine all the possibilities.

“Maybe you could write a story about it,” she says, following my gaze. “Go talk to the people who are working on it.”

“I’ve been trying to get a hold of them for days,” I say, frowning at the portal. “They won’t talk to me.”

“That’s weird,” she says, looking back at me. “Aren’t they obligated to speak with the press?”

“You’d think so,” I say. “But I guess they’re too busy dealing with the thing to worry about us.”

Molly’s lips turn down in a grimace as she looks over my shoulder. I turn to see what she’s looking at and find a group of men in suits hurrying toward us.

“Crap,” I say, lowering my camera and taking a step back.

“Who are they?” Molly asks, her gaze darting between the men and me.

“Government,” I say, turning back to look at her. “They don’t like people like us getting too close to the story.”

“What do we do?” she asks, turning to look at the men again. She grabs my hand and squeezes it just before the men reach us and surround us in a semi-circle.

“Ladies,” the man directly in front of me says. He’s tall, probably six-foot-four, and broad-shouldered. His brown eyes are cold as he looks me over. “We’re going to need you both to come with us.”

“Why?” I ask, narrowing my eyes at him.

“Because we said so,” he says, smirking at me.

I roll my eyes at him and turn to look at Molly. She shakes her head at me, her eyes wide with fear.

I know we’ve been given an ultimatum: come quietly or be taken by force. But I still have a choice about how I’m going to react to the situation.

I can either stand by and let these men intimidate me into doing what they want, or I can fight back.

And there’s no way in hell that I’m going to let them win today.

Chapter Two

Sarah