yrn 's lovelight poured out of him into loora , who felt a new warmth inside her own chest , not her own love but his , pouring out , a connection -- what she felt instead , somehow , was cory , etched into a sunlight that she saw as vividly as a dream , and she reached for him , as if he were really there , and then cory 's face twinkled like a sky of stardust , and as her reaching fingers touched cory 's , a dark shape flitted between them , and she felt her heart stop .