Cadence could feel herself slowly coming back to her body, a strange tingling sensation taking over her extremities. It was nothing at all like the last time she’d been given Transformation serum. That time it had seemed like waking up from a long sleep. This time, she had the feeling her body was reawakening, as if it had rebuilt itself while she was away, and now it was welcoming her home.

She had the idea that she’d been dreaming, though she couldn’t say what those dreams might’ve consisted of. Something about Holland, she thought, maybe about her sister. Perhaps about the moon. None of it would come back to her,...