Duality

by Kim Hoppy

After being hit by a laser by a Jokerz, Ro finds herself traveling between worlds filled with different Zetas. But are they real, and how will she get back to her own Zee?

12. Reality 1, Again

And in the darkness, there was sunlight.

Ro twisted around, surprised and still terrified, adrenaline still coursing in her blood. She was in the suburbs, a pretty house with a green yard and decorative bushes and –

And then her leg! It was being tightened, like in a vice, and she jumped and nearly screamed before she looked down, expecting blood and gore and necessary amputation and instead saw the grinning face of the blue-eyed child Zee that had started her on this trip.

"Your little shadow found you, Ro!" a voice laughed, and Ro twisted again to see her brother Casey laughing at her from the side of the house, leaning against a hoe.

Ro darted her head back and forth and around, seeing the house and the little Zee that looked at her with such adoration and Casey and then Zee's "parents" and Zee and the house and it all became too much, even though she was in the outdoors it all seemed to be closing in and her breaths didn't bring in enough air …