Chapter 5
When I stepped out of the back door and headed for the orchard at the back of the garden, I was surprised to find it was late afternoon already. I had spent more time with Nick than I thought I had. The story with all of the details had been a long one, but on top of that, I tended to lose track of time in the real world when I was looking at things so intently in the world of webs.
That explained all of the eggs and toast with butter I had scarfed down. I had been hungry because I had missed lunch.
I looked over all of Brianna's brass instruments arranged throughout the garden first. They hadn't sensed a single thing since I had collapsed the time portal down to the narrowest of wormholes, but I always started with them just to be sure. If anything were trying to break throug
