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with cries that might as well be silence, because she couldn’t reach them. “You’ve always known. But all you care about is keeping us safe. Just like Mom. We’ll never be safe, not while the center has Trinity.”
    “We’ll stop them together.” Richard’s mind moved closer. “You’ll help us figure out the dream’s purpose. You’ll tell us everything we need to know about Trinity. Then we’ll—”
    “I won’t leave her.”
    “
Leave who?” her twin asked. “Look around you, Sarah. You’re alone. No one else is here.”
    “She never stops crying.” Sarah pressed her fists to her ears. She drank down more of the sea, letting it wash away the horrible sound.
    “I can hear her now.” There were tears in Maddie’s voice. “Come back. You don’t have to prove anything anymore, but we need your help. We won’t find her door again without your memories.”
    Sarah watched her sister’s reflection grow more solid within the deadly vision. Brighter colors returned with Maddie, a rainbow of amethyst splendor trailing toward the surface, where a raven circled. But the hues were already fading.
    “Go away,” Sarah yelled. “You’ll die here.”
    “
If you stay, I stay.” Maddie grabbed her arm. Her nose began to bleed. The sea washed the stain clear, but more blood followed.
    Maddie pulled, her strength overwhelming Sarah’s resistance. She fought the rising current and somehow got them both moving. Terrified for her sister and the beating Maddie’s mind was taking, Sarah stopped fighting as they neared shallower water, where it should be easier to breathe. Only it wasn’t. Maddie’s image flickered. Faded out, then back in.
    “Help me
. . .
” cried a defenseless child Sarah was certain was being tested and programmed by center scientists.
    Maddie made a weak attempt to kick through to the surface, only to sink back to Sarah. Both of them drifted lower.
    “Let me go,” Sarah begged. “You’re dying.”
    “When are you going to get it?” Maddie’s image held tight to Sarah’s hand. “Hide from me, and I’ll find you. Try to get yourself killed following some guilty compulsion to make up for your past, and I’ll drag your ass back to life. We’re sisters, Sarah. You’re not staying here alone. We’re in this together.”
    “Break the link,” Jarred demanded, his presence stronger near the surface.
    “We’re losing them both,” Richard said. His raven’s shadow circled closer to the water. His mind beat away at the dream’s reality.
    Sarah grabbed her twin as Maddie collapsed. She glared up at her raven’s reflection. She tried to open her eyes in her sleeping quarters in the Brotherhood’s bunker. To fight her way back. But she was too weak. The water growled in excitement—a predatory animal circling its prey.
    “Help me,” Sarah begged Richard’s dream image, terrified of inviting him even deeper into her thoughts, but even more afraid now for her twin and Trinity. Too many people had already suffered because Sarah couldn’t control the power she’d never wanted. “Please, don’t let them die, too.”
    The raven’s reflection circled higher. For a second, she wascertain he’d abandon them. Then his image dove beneath the dream’s surface, finally free to unleash the unworldly psychic power that had secured his position leading the Brotherhood in its mission to tame Sarah’s legacy.
    He hurtled toward Maddie and Sarah, slicing through the water. He grabbed them in his talons, capturing but not hurting. Dry, warm wings surrounded them, creating a pocket of life-giving oxygen. Sarah felt her sister’s heart falter, weakened from battling Sarah’s sleeping mind for too long. Her own body began to convulse.
    With a menacing shriek, the raven soared toward the surface.
    “I’ve got you,” he said.
    It felt like a new dream, having his voice back in her mind, even though she was certain trusting him again would destroy her.
    “You have to wake up from here,”