Realitysis 25 01 06 Sawyer Cassidy Our Parents ... [TOP]

Sawyer looked around, eyes landing on a house that looked exactly like theirs, except the porch light was on, and a warm glow spilled out of the windows. In the living room, a figure stood at the kitchen table, hunched over a stack of blueprints—one that looked exactly like the one they’d found in the notebook. It was their mother, alive, alive and smiling.

“Our parents left us a secret that isn’t a secret at all,” Cassidy whispered, echoing the words that had started it all. RealitySis 25 01 06 Sawyer Cassidy Our Parents ...

The siblings scrambled down the attic stairs, the snow crunching under their boots as they raced toward the backyard. The clock in the hallway ticked toward twelve, each second echoing like a drumbeat in their chests. Sawyer looked around, eyes landing on a house

The holographic map flickered, then dissolved into a cascade of light. The reality around them began to blur. The silver bark of the oak turned back to its ordinary brown, the violet sky faded into the gray clouds of Marrow Creek, and the shimmering doorway closed behind them. The siblings fell onto the cold snow, the RealitySis device still warm in their hands. The attic window was now just a window, the oak tree a plain oak, and the world around them was exactly as they’d left it—except for the silver disk in Cassidy’s pocket and the notebook, now filled with fresh pages of equations they didn’t understand but felt oddly familiar. “Our parents left us a secret that isn’t

“Do you think they’ll ever come back?” Cassidy asked, voice trembling.