My Hockey Alpha

 Chapter 147 Through the Veil

Nina

With one last, deep breath, I stepped through the portal with Edward. For a fleeting moment, I felt as though my body was weightless, almost as though I didn’t even exist. I didn’t know where my flesh ended and the vacuum around me began; I felt like everything and nothing at the same time.

Then, it was over in a flash.

We came out on the other side of the portal, and everything was quiet. As I looked around, felt a wave of confusion wash over me; the forest around me was exactly the same as before, but almost like a mirror image. Lisa, Ronan, and the dean were gone. It was only me and Edward.

“Strange, isn’t it?” Edward asked with a chuckle, breaking my train of thought and snapping me back to this strange new reality. “Exactly the same, but entirely different all at once. Don’t worry; you’ll get used to it.”

“Just take me wherever you were planning on taking me,” I growled. I wrenched my hand free from Edward’s and curled my hands up into fists at my sides as I stared ahead solemnly. If I was going to die today, I just wanted to get it over with.

“So be it,” Edward replied. “Follow me.”

We walked through the woods in silence for a little while. It really was strange, walking in a place that I knew well, but at the same time, didn’t know at all. Either way, I kept my head down and followed Edward. There was nothing else to do at this point. If this would save my friends and my campus, then I would let whatever was about to happen… happen.

Finally, after a while of walking, we came out to a road. On that road sat a black car. I felt the knot in my stomach grow larger, but as Edward walked up to it and opened the back door, I swallowed my fear and climbed inside. He shut the door behind me.

“Finally,” a female voice said. I looked over to see what looked like a young woman with her face hidden by a black veil. She was sitting still in the seat next to me with her legs crossed and her hands folded in her lap. “You’ve been quite the little troublemaker.”

asked shakily, just wanting

out soon enough,”

you going

and laughed. It was eerie hearing her laugh without being able to see her face. “Not necessarily,” she said.

and before I could flinch away, she placed her index finger

“Sleep.”

…

to me. It felt as though I blinked for just a few moments after the veiled girl touched my forehead, but at the same time, my body

realized that I was in some sort of small, one-room cabin. There was a little wood stove and a table with a single chair beneath the window, and a bookshelf on the far wall. For all intents and purposes, it was surprisingly cozy, and it made me

out. I wasn’t at the cabins outside the campus; I was alone. There was nothing nearby aside from a small pond and dark pine trees. The sky was dark, like a rainstorm at dusk, but there was no rain or wind. It was entirely

spun around, holding my fists up, then

around. “I tried to make it cozy enough

“W-Why?” I asked.

her to grab the ax and attack me with it, but she

to be completely miserable,” she said thoughtfully. “Only

“Out of the way of

of course,”

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