The Skin Map (2010)
The Skin Map
“He put a comforting hand on her back and murmured encouragements as she bent over retching. It was only her third otherworld journey, and she had yet to develop the physical mastery that would greatly reduce the more unpleasant effects and make travel between dimensions bearable if not entirely comfortable.
He remembered his first few times—leaping blind into the unknown and arriving in a strange world disoriented and incapacitated. To be so helpless in an unfamiliar place and time was alive wi...th dangers of every kind, some of them lethal. That he survived those early exploits, he put down to Providence looking out for him when he did not know how to look out for himself. For that he was abundantly grateful.
“There, there, my love,” he cooed. “Breathe deeply. The worst is over. The sickness will soon pass.”
She retched again.
“You’ll feel better now,” advised Arthur.
“I’m sorry,” she gasped, wiping her mouth with her husband’s proffered handkerchief.
“Not a thing in the world to be sorry about, my dear.”MoreLess
He remembered his first few times—leaping blind into the unknown and arriving in a strange world disoriented and incapacitated. To be so helpless in an unfamiliar place and time was alive wi...th dangers of every kind, some of them lethal. That he survived those early exploits, he put down to Providence looking out for him when he did not know how to look out for himself. For that he was abundantly grateful.
“There, there, my love,” he cooed. “Breathe deeply. The worst is over. The sickness will soon pass.”
She retched again.
“You’ll feel better now,” advised Arthur.
“I’m sorry,” she gasped, wiping her mouth with her husband’s proffered handkerchief.
“Not a thing in the world to be sorry about, my dear.”MoreLess
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