I push, harder than I ever have before, harder than I believed myself capable of. I feel my brain slide into place, like I’m taking a test and I’ve just remember a particularly tricky bit of information. But amplified, so its a sensation that makes my whole body feel like I’ve been tossed into a frozen lake.
We jump.
We land with force, impacting the surface of another world, far from the chaos at Abilene. I got us both, and I am astonished.
“Never done that before,” I say.
“I bet you say that to all the guys,” he jokes.