"But if nothing had happened to the surface, then we would be able to return to the modern world. By then—"0

"We'll talk about that when the time comes," Anna interrupted, putting a ruthless stop to Charles' beautiful thoughts. "I want your eyes healed before anything else. My heart aches to see you like this."1

Charles then felt two palm-sized boxes in his hands. "What's in these boxes?"0

"Open it, and you'll know once you've touched it." 0

Charles opened one of the boxes and put a finger inside. He felt something soft with many legs wrapping around his finger and then a prick. 0

"Is it a spider?" Charles asked.0

"Have you forgotten how your paramour uses these as her eyes? Since she can do that, then you can do it as well. I went through a lot of trouble running over to Elizarles...0