FBI Way

I ran as hard as I could, drawing up more of my will. I should have been feeling some of the strain by now, but I wasn't. Go, go, Gadget Faustian bargain.
I gathered my will, shouted, "Aparturum!" and slashed at the air down the hallway with my right hand.
I'd used a lot of energy to open the Way, and it tore wide, a diagonal rip in the fabric of space, crooked and off center to the hallway. It hung there like some kind of oddly geometric cloud of mist, and I pointed at it, shouting wordlessly to Susan. She shouted something back, nodding, while behind us the vampires gained ground with every second.
We both screamed in a frenzy of wild fear and rampant adrenaline, and hit the Way moving at a dead run.
We plunged through - into empty air.
I let out a shriek as I fell, and figured I'd finally taken my last desperate gamble - but after less than a second, my flailing limbs hit solid stone and I dropped into a roll. I came back up to my feet and kept running through what appeared to be a spacious cavern of some kind, and Susan ran beside me.
We didn't run far. A wall loomed up out of the blackness and we barely stopped in time to keep from braining ourselves against it.
"Jesus," Susan said, panting. "Have you been working out?"
I turned, blasting rod in hand and ready, to wait for the first of the pursuing vampires to appear. There were shrieks and wails and the sound of scrabbling claws - but none of them emerged from the shadows.


Changes Chapter 35, Page 362-363