~ SASHA ~
They stood there together in the Gateway, staring deeper into the indigo tunnel, and Sasha felt like something had been stolen from her.
"Are you sure?" she murmured.
Zev demonstrated again, calling for different places or times they'd been before, then for something they knew was in the future, and always, the Gateway darkened.
She couldn't resist it. She hated it. Felt that her hope had been stolen. But she knew there was no point fighting it because they couldn't change it.
"You're right, Zev. You're right," she said sadly when he offered to try again. "Let's… let's go home."
She turned around to the gateway at their back that they'd never stepped away from, but Zev caught her.
"Just wait, just a second," he murmured. Then he looked at the Gateway again. "Take us back after Nick has left Thana," he said clearly. But once again, the gateway was dark, not even lit up under their feet.
