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might know?” a female voice said.
    Travis felt fingers softly touch his temples.
    “There’s not enough time for that,” the male voice said
    The roar of an engine rumbled as it pulled up beside them.
    “Hey, guys, unless you want to end up in the back of a cruiser, we need to jump … now.”
    “Jayde—JAYDE!” another yelled.
    Travis heard footsteps running, doors slam and grit spitting as a vehicle took off into the night.
    He could no longer feel the fingers against his head, only his heart pounding inside his chest as excruciating pain coursed its way through, tearing at his insides.
    A few minutes later, red and blue lights pulsated above him; two EMTs were checking his vitals and shouting. In the noise of sirens and radios crackling, he heard Officer Davis.
    “Hang in there, kid.”
    Everything around him was going in and out of view. He felt as if someone was suffocating him. He gasped for breath, another and another, as a mask was put over his mouth. Air filled his nostrils and then nothing but darkness.

 
    Chapter Six

     
    “Travis, pass me the wrench,” Will said, reaching his arm back as he worked on the dirt bike.
    Travis was standing close to a rock face up in the Jemez Mountains that overlooked the entire town of Los Alamos. They were both baking under the heat of the noonday sun. There wasn’t a cloud in sight and from where they were you could see for miles.
    He looked around, puzzled. Was he dead? Dreaming? But it couldn’t be. The whole incident was eerily familiar. It started coming to him in pieces. That’s right, it was a Saturday he had spent with his brother a few years back. They had spent the whole day riding trails before Travis had come off his bike. Well, it was Will’s but he had given it to him as a gift. But there was something unusual about this day.
    “What is up with you?” Will said, straightening up and smiling at him. “You’re looking even weirder than you usually do.” He chuckled.
    “Will?”
    Travis tightly gripped the back of his shirt, hugging him. “Man, I’ve missed you.”
    “Oookay. I know we’re out in good ol’ nature, but do you mind not going all Deliverance on me?” Will said, stiffening up inside his embrace.
    “Yeah—yeah, of course.” Travis released his bear hug grip on Will and stepped back, looking a little embarrassed.
    Will shook his head. “Now, you want to get me the wrench so we can get this fixed up and make it back before dark?”
    Travis nodded. “Sure, you got it,” he said, whirling around and pulling out a wrench from a rucksack on the back of his brother’s bike. “So I was thinking,” he began, as he turned back to his brother.
    “Will?” Travis gazed around; Will wasn’t anywhere to be seen.
    Impossible!
    “WILL!” he shouted. His voice echoed back, but there was no reply.
    Suddenly, his entire surroundings imploded, like the fabric of reality tearing and folding in on itself. Darkness began swallowing up the sky, forest and eventually the ground beneath him. Travis tried to run.
    “WILL!” he yelled.
    Travis bolted upright with a yell still caught in his throat; his eyelids opened to the brightness of overhead lights stabbing his eyes like shards of glass. He reached up to rub his eyes, his body feeling like a lead weight, stiff and aching all over.
    “Travis,” Laura gasped, grasping his hand. “Hey, hon, it’s okay.”
    As Travis’s vision became clearer, he looked sideways and he could see his mother leaning forward in a chair beside his bed. He gazed around, recognizing he was in a small hospital room. A breathing apparatus was hooked into his nostrils and a tube was attached to his arm. He could hear the sound of air being pumped and felt a steady stream of it forcing its way up his nose. He pulled it out slowly and the fresh air was replaced with the stench of a bedpan.
    “Gave us a bit of a scare there, you’ve been out for over eleven hours.”
    He licked his cracked lips and then swallowed,