Pollyanna

by 616

In an unmade new world where everything is—or has the potential to be—right again, Lucas learns just what or whom he has freed when he pulled the Needle. Even with his family reunited and his friends safe, the revelation serves as one last reminder and a warning against the frightening cost of building worlds on buried secrets.

2. Chapter 2

Genesis.

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It was dark. It was new.

Lucas suddenly realized he could feel again. Tears were streaming down Kumatora's face and there was only just enough time to thank the player before—

There was his father. There was Mom.

Claus (and there was Claus) had pulled his mask away again. Lucas watched with a sensation unfamiliar lightness in is head and heart, while his brother hugged Flint, then Hinawa, and then ran to him.

Before Lucas quite realized what was happening, he was running too.

Wherever they were going it was—it would be okay, now.