Chapter 26

⁠​​​‌​​​​​‌​​​​​​‌‌​‌‌​​​​​​‌​‌‌​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌‌​​‌​​​‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​⁠Sarah was hovering around me, a sylphlike presence, as I watched myself drift up the steps of the pyramid there in the square, my senses waxing and waning like the waves on a distant ocean shore. There seemed to be rain, or fog, or smoke, but it had a luminous, purple cast one moment, a Day-Glo orange the next. In fact, all the colors were swirling and changing, shimmering from hue to hue. A pack