<div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #00BFFF">David</span></span></div><br/><br/>David was tempted to take Tessa’s offer. Though at this point he felt they were too deep in it to just run away. The heat from the place beyond the door was great, however, and he wasn’t looking forward to going through it. <br/><br/>“We don’t have time to explain everything,” Echo said, “and my ability to speak to you will be limited across the Divide. But we have placed as much information as possible in the book we gave you.” <br/><br/>David started to calm his breathing and he started mustering up some courage from deep within him. <br/><br/>“Remember that the laws of physics and biology are different across the Divide, sometimes the difference is very slight and sometimes great.” <br/><br/>Finally, David felt strong enough to step through. He grabbed Tessa’s hand. <br/><br/>“Ok,” When Echo spoke, David took it as a sign to go through and he and Tessa jumped through the doorway. “Wait! Step through slow....” The rest was drowned out as David and Tessa plummeted through the door and out into air. Suddenly they dropped and started rolling down a large hill. <br/><br/>He couldn’t hold on to Tessa as he rolled down so fast he couldn’t stop to get his bearings. The world was spinning around him. Luckily there weren’t any trees to knock into and he finally stopped spinning when they reached flat ground. He felt an intense heat near his face and when he opened his eyes, he saw a river of lava flowing right in front of him, inches from where he landed. He yelped and scrambled back away from it. He looked up and down the river. It was like a river, snaking through the clearing and emptying out into a small lake farther down, but instead of water it was all lava. The odd thing was that the green grass was quite lush around it. He could see figures swimming in the lava, dark shadows in the deep river. <br/><br/>He panicked when he realized Tessa might have fallen in, but luckily she hadn’t. He looked back up the hill. They had exited the front door of what seemed to be a small cottage built on a very tiny patch of flat area on top of the hill.</div>