Siren Song

[Wyll Wyldclay]

"No road stays open for too long -- or closed, for that matter," the Wyldclay agreed. "And tarry too long, and you're bound to end up somewhere interesting, though not intended."

[Samantha McManus]

"Aye well, par for the course."

[Will Stanton]

"Well. Unless someone needs some more legwarmers or a Rubix cube, shall we?"

Because there was certainly no way they'd ever be returning to, or facing, this dimension again. Nope. Strictly speaking impossible. That is for sure.

[Narrator]

And so the team stepped through the mist-filled portal framed by the mine entrance and out into... a very similar landscape, minus the signs of a fighting and rain. Behind them the passage billows and disappears along with the mist under the harsh sun. It only takes a moment for their radio to come back to life with Ashlie's voice. It still takes the Blackbird a little over two hours to race across the globe but eventually they're out of the scorching heat and zooming back home. Ashlie listens to the debrief with only minimal chagrin about the efficacy of magic and make-belief.

An entire world away Katarina and Ryn too leave the desert behind in a much slower vehicle that speeds along the road regardless.

For a moment the sand in the desert sparkles with the last traces of magic and a final song plays for an audience of rocks and lizards as both car and plane speed away in opposite directions.