Book Two: Chapter 56

The road was barely visible, already overgrown with weeds. Other than a pair of naked dirt strips where her tires should go, she had no other way of finding her way in. Daisy sat on the dashboard, her legs kicking at the little compass that was suction-cupped to the dash.

They had long ago passed through the locked metal gate that warned that trespassers would be shot. According to Jerome, local hunters had been upset to discover that some of their favorite hunting grounds had been bought up by some wealthy railroad tycoon, but Emily couldn’t care less. Bigfoot had already told her that the few hunters he had detected had become disoriented shortly after crossing the barriers, many of them becoming lost. A local geologist was blaming the effect on a large magnetic field that disrupted navigation and was affecting the human brain.

“There it is.” The shimmering barrier was visible to her, as was the forest beyond. She had tried to photograph the barrier once out of curiosi