Yelena arrived first through her portal.
Her expression shifted from confusion to horror as she took in the scene.
The collapsed hospital, the massive chasm, her sister kneeling at its edge, bloodied and broken.
"Fauna! What happened?!"
"The hospital collapsed." Fauna gasped out. "The ground opened up—there's a chasm—and Anya and Mika—they fell—I tried to go after them but my blessing—my blessing stopped working—"
"Your blessing stopped working?" Yelena's voice sharpened. "What do you mean it stopped working?"
"There's something down there. Some kind of field. The moment I entered the chasm, I became mortal. Completely mortal."
"I couldn't fly, I couldn't heal, I couldn't do anything—"
Nadia appeared next, the ground trembling slightly with her arrival.
"I felt a disturbance in the earth. What's going—"
She stopped, her eyes going to the chasm.
"No. No, tell me they're not—"
"The children fell." Yelena said grimly. "Both of them."
