Dosing myself with a Z-Pak, flooding my system with purified water, and a full day of deep sleep worked its magic. I was back in the mix for Rainbow Mountain.

My plan was to head off by myself…my plan was thwarted immediately.

In that moment, I knew if he fell, I wouldn’t be able to help him.I would not be able to save him. I would have to watch him die.

Clayton said nothing. He had no emotional reaction at all. His lack of emotion had been one of the first big warning signs that something was terribly wrong.

I understood I was standing in a portal through which our ancestors travel to join the living and that I was to carry Clayton to the ancestral side.