"Dr. Brill, if you are responsible for whatever has happened...."
The screen went dark.
Lucifer rushed to the window, tore Nina away from it. He caught a glimpse of white flames in the darkness.
"Hurry! Through the warp!" he shouted.
She followed woodenly, in a state of psychic shock. Her head struck the edge of the warp. Lucifer had to make her bend in order to get through.
The drenching rain revived her a little.
"Oh, Lucifer.... It hurt me so.... I tried so hard...."
She was sobbing, and her tears became part of the rain on her cheeks.
"It was like trying to swim against the tide of all the oceans in the universe. And the tide was pushing me back—and then, all of a sudden, the tide was with me—and I was tumbled and choked—in breakers as high as the stars."
She pressed hard against him, her strong body contorting in a spasm that was more than muscular. Words tore themselves from lips that quivered and twisted: