Chapter 140

Gabriel cursed below his breath and his heart sank.

“Oh, no,” Amelia whispered. “Oh no, oh no, terrible Evelyn.”

“We don't know,” Gabriel said. “We can not know. Maybe it simply hasn't happened yet.”

“But it can go to the future. Gabriel. If that world is viable to be in, it would take us—unless they've blocked it somehow, right?”

Something about what she'd scratched at the returned of Gabriel's mind. He frowned harder.

“I favor to... I favor to go to Thana when I was a child. The day that Evan was type to me,” he said clearly, and the Courseway blazed again, immediately. A brief experience around a corner.

Gabriel took a deep breath. But he had to check. He swallowed hard. “I desire to go to my fortieth birthday party... or the social gathering that—”

Once again, the Gateway went black.

“I don't suppose it can take us to the future, Amelia ,” he whispered. “I think... I suppose when there's a vicinit