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“Dragon?” Paige repeated. “Dragon.”
The teal face formed in her mind’s eye. Spikes rose from his nose to between his wiggling ears. He grinned at her, his wings flapping behind him.
“Dewey,” she breathed.
“Yes, Dewey! Me! Now quit fooling around in whatever’s going on in your mind, and get back here. The place is falling to pieces! Literally.”
“Pieces?” Paige asked.
She opened her eyes and glanced around the room. The photos on the mantel rattled around before they fell to the floor. Glass shattered across the floor. A chunk of the ceiling smashed into the hardwood. The walls shook, pieces of the plaster crashing down.
Paige glanced down at the photograph of her and her mother. With tears brimming in her eyes, she traced her mother’s face. “It’s not real.”
She lifted the frame and smashed it onto the floor. The room broke apart around her, and she floated in a dark space for a moment before she gasped in a breath. Her gaze fluttered around the space.
“Paige,” Dewey shouted, buzzing in front of her face.
“Dewey!” Paige said, a smile forming on her lips.
Dewey flung his arms around her. “You’re back. Thank goodness.”
A large crack sounded as Paige wrapped her arms around the tiny dragon and squeezed him closely to her. “What happened?”
“The moment you touched that glass box, you went haywire.”
“I had some sort of vision. I was at home with my mom.”
Dewey pulled back and stared at her, a sad expression on his face. “Paige, I’m sorry.”
She shook her head. “It’s okay. It wasn’t real.”
“I hate to rush you after your emotional moment, but the floor is caving in. We need to get the crystal and go.” Dewey poked a finger toward the floor in one corner.
The stones had fallen away, leaving a gaping black hole.
“Oh crap,” Paige said, shoving her glasses up higher on the bridge of her nose.
She scrambled to her feet and stared at the glass box. With a nod to herself, she reached for it.
“Wait. What if you go haywire again?”
“I won’t. Now I know what’s happening.” Paige slapped her hands against the glass.
False memories of her mother shot through her mind. She pushed them aside, gritting her teeth as she lifted the box and smashed it onto the floor.
Another large chunk of the floor fell away with a thunderous boom. Paige glanced at it before she reached for the crystal.
“Hurry up, idiots, I’m going to plunge to my death!” the pixie yelled as the hole in the floor approached his location.
Heat filled her hand as she touched it. The warmth traveled up her arm, radiating through her body. She tucked it into the waistband of her leggings, feeling the tingly heat race across her stomach.
“Let’s go,” she called.
Dewey buzzed across the space as another chunk of floor dropped away. As Paige raced across the unsteady surface, a large piece near the doorway fell. The carrier hovered in the air for a moment before descending into the hole.
Paige lunged forward, grasping at the strap and tugging it up before she leapt across the black chasm to the doorway on the other side.
“Come on. This entire place is collapsing,” Dewey shouted as a stone from the ceiling toppled into the blackness.
