Harwood's Vortex

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The vortex bubbled up out of nowhere, hung shimmering in the air in front of me, glistened and gleamed brightly. There was a whirlpool of twisting currents in the air, and I wavered dizzily for a second or two while the Invaders poured through the newly-created gulf.

Then someone had me by the hand, someone was pulling me away. Leading me inside the house, behind a screen, safe from danger.

I didn’t understand what had happened. I was numb with shock, half-blinded by the brightness. I felt Laura near me, and that was all I cared to think about.

After a couple of minutes, I opened my eyes. “What was that?” I asked weakly. “What happened?”

Two minutes before, I had been approaching the Harwood house, impatient to see Laura, untroubled by the world around me. And suddenly—

“It was Daddy’s experiment,” Laura half-sobbed. “It—it worked!”

“The old crackpot,” I said. “The dimensional gulf—at last? I wouldn’t believe it, if I hadn’t nearly fallen into it!”

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