Ming and Flo Fight for the Future_Extract

CHAPTER 2

TIME TASTING

The corridor stretched forever, dappled with a million doors. Light came from everywhere and nowhere. Ming couldn’t feel the floor with her feet, though she could see it, and when she took a step her body moved closer to the nearest door. The door handle was carved into a snarling face. She touched it cautiously. Locked. Had she come to the wrong place? Not to the past, but to … to somewhere else, outside reality maybe? The air around her pulsed, as if with a gigantic heartbeat. She crossed to the door on the other side of the corridor and tried that. Still nothing. But she could

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