This time I did lunge for him, grasping his upper arms in my hands while Sassafras gasped behind me.

I didn't shake my son. Oh, I wanted to. But the mother in me and the all-powerful Doombringer were too tightly locked in battle to allow me to do anything but hold him gently and ask the obvious question.

"You crossed over?" Dear elements, what would that mean for the Universe? Gabriel's first Gateway had opened the way for Dark ...