55 Nikki

The walk to the Serendin Atlas is a long and draining one. It takes me well over two hours of nonstop walking and when the sun went well past the skyscrapers, and the cold rain began seeping into my clothing, I was more than ready to turn around and be home.

Instead I continued walking towards my ultimate goal of seeing my brother, in fear that if I turned around and went back to the penthouse, I would walk into an image that would leave me a blubbering mess.

I couldn’t take much more of what I saw before I left.

“Nikki?” I hear a deep voice call out to me as I enter the old abandoned hotel and run when I see it’s Brody sitting at the top landing of the first stairwell. My body envelopes his as he dips his head down and engulfs me in a long hug. It feels like it’s been years since I have seen Brody and although it has only been a few weeks, it’s the longest we’ve been apart since our parents died.