A young girl chases her dog through an anomaly into a bleak, sandy landscape filled with burrowing monsters. Cutter and Stephen go through to rescue her but when the anomaly closes, the three of them are stranded with no apparent way home.
Taylor is a young girl whose dog runs off and through an anomaly. She follows and is trapped in the past in a sand-strewn world inhabited by giant scorpions that burrow underground and attack prey through surface vibrations. When part of Leek's army goes through the anomaly they battle the creatures; Nick and Steven soon follow and attempt to bring Taylor back to her own time.—Ron Kerrigan <mvg@whidbey.com>