When I arrived back in my realm, the sun was still blazing overhead—and the moment I opened my eyes, they nearly popped out of their sockets.
What the actual hell was going on here?
It was pure chaos. Disaster everywhere. Buildings we'd been constructing were wrecked. Some were straight-up smashed to bits.
My Dimensional Door had dropped me right at the center of my town. And just when l was shocked by everything before me, l heard a—
CRACK—
It came from the ground. The pavement beneath me split, and suddenly, the air thickened with a wild, dangerous miasma. It was coming from my house—my damn house.
I darted toward it, my heart pounding, wondering just what kind of madness had taken over while I was gone.
And then I saw it.