I would have given up there and then, tossed in the towel knowing what I'd done. All but for my son who smiled up at the grim and worried Order soldier and shook his blond head.

"No," he said with such surety I instantly believed him over Oliver's fear. "I am the Gateway and for as long as the veil holds and the Universe remains, I won't allow it."

And in that instant, holding my son against me like the boy I still thought of him, ...