LILY POV
The ground beneath my feet turned to liquid fire.
I screamed and threw myself sideways as the purple grass melted into boiling lava. This was the third time today that a perfectly safe world had tried to kill me. My dimensional skills were getting weaker, and I could barely control where I landed anymore.
I rolled behind a crystal tree just as the entire field became a sea of molten rock. The heat made my skin feel like it was burning, but I forced myself to think. Panicking would only make things worse.
"Focus, Lily," I whispered to myself. "You survived the dimensional hunts before. You can do this."
But that was when I had Kestrel and my son to help me. Now I was totally alone, jumping from world to world with nowhere safe to rest. Every dimension I entered seemed to sense I didn't fit and tried to reject me violently.
