CALEB POV
The mountain creature's claw cut inches from my face.
I rolled sideways and grabbed Lily's hand, pulling her behind a rock as the starlight beast roared. We'd been running for three hours through this nightmare world, and I was starting to think we'd never escape.
"This way!" I shouted, finding a gap between two rocks.
We squeezed through just as the creature's huge head smashed into the stone where we'd been hiding. Its angry howls echoed through the canyon, but the gap was too small for it to follow.
"I can't keep doing this," Lily gasped, leaning against the rock wall. Her face was pale and tired. "Every world we jump to has something trying to kill us."
I wanted to comfort her, but she was right. Ever since I'd followed her through that first portal, we'd been hunted in every world we entered. Sometimes by animals, sometimes by the world itself, sometimes by those dimensional hunters who seemed to track us everywhere.
