As East and I follow after a confident-looking Kelly, we exchange concerned glances. We don’t need to speak to know what the other is thinking right now. Kelly was distraught and practically comatose, the guy she was in love with just died. However, now she's powering up towards the mountains as if we're all having a pleasant hike, and she's eager to get to the end of the trail.

“Kelly, we should probably stop for a minute, and find some water,” East calls after her, breaking the tense silence between us all. She carries on like she hasn’t heard him, but if anything, she’s sped up a little.

“Kelly!” I yell, trying to get her attention, but she keeps right on walking. “Kelly, stop!” I shout louder, grimacing at the irritation I hear in my own voice.

“We don’t have time to stop,” she shouts back, not even turning around to face us. I groan as I take in the steep climb ahead of us. East and I only got a couple of hours sleep last night. She’d woken us up before first light, and practically dragged us back onto the path. I’m pretty sure she didn’t even sleep for those few hours, because whenever I’d stirred I had seen her pacing. How is she functioning without sleep for so long? I notice East isn’t walking beside me anymore and turn back to him, seeing him frozen in place staring up at the sky.

“East?” I call, stepping back towards him, but he doesn’t answer, just keeps staring up. “Are you okay?”

“Is it me, or is there a fucking dragon in the sky?” he asks incredulously, pointing up above us. My head shoots up, my eyes searching the skies for something impossible, and damn if they don’t find it. In the distance is what most definitely looks like a dragon. Fucking hell, I hope it doesn’t breathe fire.

“It’s definitely a dragon, and unless you two want to meet it, hurry up!” Kelly shouts back at us, still pressing ahead.

“Aren’t you walking in the direction of the dragon?”

“We’re going through a gap in the mountains. It won’t see us if you two would just hurry up like I keep asking you to do,” she snaps, spinning around on the spot to glare at us, her hands on her hips and eyes blazing.

“Wouldn’t we be better covered by the trees back there?” East questions. “Away from the flying dragon?” he adds, his eyes darting up nervously to the gigantic beast that’s flying around high in the sky near to the mountains.

“We have to go this way, and we have to go now. Or else we’ll miss them, and then Kenzie and Enzo won’t make it without you guys,” she explains haughtily, before turning and carrying on.

“Wait, miss who? Locke? You know where my brother is?” I call, racing after her to make her explain.

“Yes, I know where Locke is, and you better hurry up before someone kills him,” she answers as I reach her, rolling her eyes. I can hear East running up after us from behind, clearly having decided to follow Kelly towards the threat in the sky after all.

“Someone’s trying to kill him?” I ask, my eyes widening in alarm. She laughs, but it’s a hollow sounding laugh. Empty.

“Relax, it was a joke. He’s driving Mr Daniels completely insane, and he may or may not be muttering under his breath about ways to silence your brother,” she answers.

“You can see all that?” East asks curiously, catching up to us and walking on her other side.

“I can see everything,” she whispers. “It’s so strange. My vision here seems amplified. I can see all of us, every possibility, every path we could take, and ones I couldn’t even imagine before. I can see where we are now, where we’ve been, and all the places we could go from here. I can see him too…” her voice waivers off, and she coughs awkwardly. “Ignore me. Anyway, yes, I can see them. We’re getting close.” She speeds up again, powering ahead as if she’s trying to lose us.

I share another concerned look with East. Both of us can easily guess who the “him” is that she’s referring to.

There’s only one mark that gives the gift of communing with some of the dead, and Kelly doesn’t have the spirit mark. I can’t imagine Ryan’s spirit would be one to stick around either.

“We need to watch her,” East says quietly, and I nod silently in agreement.

“I saw that too,” Kelly shouts back in an irritated voice, and East’s eyes bulge. “I’ll forgive you, if you two would just hurry up!” she adds with a yell. We both speed up, trusting that even if she is confused from grief right now, that she’s clear enough to be telling us the truth about Kenzie and the others. We have to get wherever it is we need to be for them, and quickly.

* * *

After narrowly avoiding stumbling over a rock, I continue walking behind Kelly through a dark, damp pathway through the mountain. A pathway that looks long forgotten by the rest of Ariziadia. East steps closely behind me, and I can’t stop the snigger that escapes me when I hear him stumble over the rock.

“Could have warned me,” he mutters.

“Warned you about what?” I ask not so innocently.

“Wanker.” He shoves my back lightly.

“Shhh!” Kelly urges us to be quiet.

“What?” I whisper in response.

“Just wait,” she answers, a little glee slipping into her voice. We turn a corner, and Kelly darts forward, turning and pressing her back against the wall, just as a figure smacks me to the ground. Another knocks East to the ground at the same time. Kelly laughs from where she’s standing against the wall.

I pull my arm back, ready to fight back, when I see my attacker’s face above mine. A face that’s just like mine. “Locke?”

“Logan? How did you find us?” he asks, giving me a one-armed hug as he pulls me up from the ground. I look over and see Daniels helping East up.

“Glad you three are alive,” Daniels says, nodding at us.

“As sweet as this reunion is, we don’t have time for it,” Kelly says impatiently, any humour she’d had a second ago already gone.

“And you’re back to that.” I turn to her, giving her a glare. “Why don’t you just tell us what we are rushing around for?”

“You need to save Kenzie and Enzo,” she answers plainly.

“Well how are we going to do that when we can’t get back to Earth?” Locke asks, sounding confused. I swallow thickly, not wanting to be the one to explain that Enzo and Kenzie are stuck here too. Luckily, Kelly has no such qualms.

“Kenzie and Enzo fell through, too. They’ve been separated, and some guy has a knife to Kenzie’s throat, or he will in about thirty minutes.

“What?!”

“Knife?!”

“You can’t be…”

“Fucking serious?” everyone seems to exclaim at once, as we all turn to Kelly.

“So, here’s the plan,” she begins, ignoring all our concern as she continues to explain calmly. “I’m going to distract the people, and then you guys are going to sneak down to the building in the centre with the red roof. You’ll grab Enzo from the entrance hallway where he’s being held by two guards, and then continue into the main chamber save Kenzie. Are we all clear?” she asks.

“What people?” Locke asks.

“And where is this building?” East adds.

“I don’t have time to explain. Do you all trust me?” she asks, and begrudgingly we all nod. Of course we trust her on this, she cares about Kenzie just as much as we do. “Great, now follow me.”