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darlin’. I hear your planet’s authorities about to come in. I’ll fight ‘em off if you want me to, but I don’t think they deserve to be pounded into rejix pudding like your mate does.”
    Sure enough, as he spoke, the front door burst open and a voice shouted,
    “Hands up! This is the police!”
    “All right,” I said, making a decision. Stepping forward, I gave him my hand. A strange electrical tingle ran between us and I gasped. “What—?”
    “It’s nothing,” he assured me hastily. “Are you coming with me?”
    “Yes.” I nodded firmly. “Take me to Zoe.”
    “My pleasure. Come on.”
    We raced up the stairs, which were thankfully located on the other side of the living room from the entry hall, and into my bedroom.
    “Wait,” I panted as Grav slammed and locked the door—not that my flimsy bedroom lock would hold the police for long. “Why are we up here? Are we going out the window? Because it’s really high up and there aren’t even any trees to climb down.”
    “Not the window—the viewer,” Grav grunted.
    I didn’t understand what he was talking about until he gestured to the wide, silvery mirror attached to my bureau. It was an antique piece I’d inherited from my grandmother, but there was no door or drawer in it wide enough to fit me, let alone the seven-foot-tall, hugely muscular Grav.
    “What are you talking about?” I said blankly. “Is there some kind of secret passage there? Like the doorway to Narnia or something?”
    “Just watch.” He pulled me closer to him and we stood side by side, staring into the mirror. I noticed that there was a bluish-gray spot on his massive muscular chest that appeared to be spreading.
    “Oh, look—you’re hurt.” I pointed at it. “That’s going to be a nasty bruise.”
    Grav looked down at himself and grinned humorlessly.
    “That’s not a bruise.”
    “Then what—?”
    “You’ll see,” he interrupted. “I wish I had time to explain better but I don’t. Just don’t be surprised when we go through. I’m not, uh, exactly how I appear.”
    “Go through? Go through what?” I demanded but Grav was leaning forward and speaking directly at the mirror.
    “Char’noth,” he barked. “Two to transport and make it fuckin’ snappy.”
    “Two to transport?” I asked, looking at him incredulously. What did that mean? It sounded like something from one of those old Star Trek episodes Zoe used to make me watch. She was a total scifi geek and insisted on inflicting her obsession on all her friends.
    God, I missed her!
    I started to ask Grav more questions but outside I heard footsteps pounding up the stairs and a stern voice demanding that Grav give himself up and release me unharmed. Gerald had really done a number on their heads—the police believed him completely.
    “Grav,” I said nervously as someone started pounding on the door. “If we’re going to go, we have to go n—”
    The rest of the word died in my throat as the mirror began to swirl with a kaleidoscope of rainbow colors. Then a strange blast of music played. With a shock, I realized it was the same thing I’d heard just minutes before Zoe had disappeared. I’d been talking to her on the phone at the time of her disappearance and that music had been the last sound I heard before she screamed and was gone.
    The next minute, I found out why she’d been screaming.
    A force like nothing I had ever felt starting pulling Grav and me towards the mirror. It seemed like someone on the other side of those swirling colors had turned on a giant vacuum which was sucking us in.
    But in to what?
    “Grav?” I asked, trying to keep the panic from my voice.
    His big hand tightened on mine.
    “Here we go, darlin’. Hold on tight.”
    “But I—”
    I didn’t get to finish my sentence. Just as the bedroom door burst open and the police came in with guns out, I was sucked forward into and then through the mirror.
    I had a moment to think that I was leaving Earth and my whole