After a quick hug from his mother, Seth gathered a few things and shoved them into a backpack, held tightly to his medallion, then said the word, "Cambria," while his mother looked on.

"I love you ..." Victoria said to her son, blowing him a kiss from across the room.

He mouthed the words, "I love you, too," as the firefly white lights assembled around him, creating a swirling tunnel of bright white light, and the deafening noise of a tempest storm pounded within his ...