The same maddening call was emanating from its dark edges in reality. Both Maria and Jacob stared at it silently for three moments before one of them finally spoke up.
"No. What is one doing here? This...this can't be right."
Jacob took a step towards it, his face ripe with anger.
"We have to close it before someone else gets marked. We can't let someone share a destiny similar to ours."
"But how? We were helpless last time we were sucked into it. What's going to happen to us if we get sucked in again?"
Jacob considered that but was afraid to face the truth. There was no telling what would happen to either of them if they were to survive the rift not once, but twice, under the assumption they would survive a second encounter.
