No time to leave. Lucky me. Exactly what I'd been trying to avoid, dropped into my lap. By design, if I knew Isis. Chaos, meanwhile, fought me, shrieking her fury, lashing out at me as though I were the enemy while the world around me erupted with arrivals, all of their emotions-once they realized who I was-crashing into me.

Assaulted from within and without, all I could do was stand there, force air into and out of my lungs and try not to destroy Creation in a giant implosion ...