Kristin couldn’t help but feel defeated in a way. She didn’t truly believe that what would happen next would be a miracle, but there they were, entering a heavily overgrown area that couldn’t have possibly existed on the other side of that wall. Kristin looked down to see the water, while moving at a snail's pace, producing barely a trickle of a sound, easily flowed off into this place as if it was meant to, as if they didn’t disrupt the ecosystem before them by opening that cylindrical doorway.
“After you,” she managed to urge Peter on as if he was trying to be chivalrous and wait for the lady to pass through before he did.
Dumbstruck as they both were, Peter nodded but said nothing in return. No ladies first garbage came from him, which was surprising to say the least, given what she
