There were only two shirts that would fit, and one pair of pants that might fit. I needed to try them on. Alyssa brazenly asked for a dressing room.Th... woman led us to the other back corner of the store. We passed a girl hanging up Christmas sweaters. She had multi-hued blue hair and purple eyebrows. She watched us walk by with bright blue eyes. I didn’t know if she knew me, but I knew her. The hair and eyebrows were the give-away, especially since school rules heavily frowned on anything. "We'll run a quick check tomorrow after Max gets his medicalcheck and we send him through time again." Just then, there was a knock at the lab door. Cree opened it tofind a somber Ian Thompson waiting outside. "We need to talk," he said. "What is it?" Cree asked. "Alone," Thompson intoned. "If there's a problem, Mr. O'Connor and Miss Brooks have theright to know about it, Ian," Cree replied, starkly. "The Board is demanding solid results," Thompson sighed. "Theywant a full report on the machine. It was 2 inches wide with a large chain link attached to a ring on the collar. I was somehow expecting a collar that was more ornamental. This was a true slave collar. No one could ever mistake it for anything but, and there was no way it could be hidden. I saw that the clasp was designed so that once it is closed, it could not be opened. I was to wear that collar and the accompanying shackles for the rest of my life.I wondered what people would think seeing such a thing on me. Everyone will. Go to your room and sleep”I was struggling to make sense of it all.I laid on my bed and thought of the other world whatever the hell that is. As soon as I slept I woke up in a cave and I could see a big white wolf sleeping beside me. She woke up just a minute later.“Welcome to the other world” Claire said, no the wolf said but as if we were communicating telepathically The wolf /Claire tried to get up but winced a wound to her leg and just under her ribcage where she was stabbed in while trying.