5
Half an hour later, Ross sat on the top step of the gazebo and watched with a disgruntled expression as Gem studied each stone on the path and in the floor of the gazebo. After they’d come to their tentative agreement to help each other, she’d informed him that she needed to know more about what had happened after she was turned to stone, and the runes or whatever were going to tell her. Apparently magic messages were relayed through stones here, and she was expecting mail from her parents.
He had been sorely tempted to make a mad dash down the rock staircase when she’d stepped around him and walked back to the gazebo. He probably would have if he hadn’t felt the ground tremble. He knew what an earthquake felt like, and the idea of being on the stairs or the beach in the event of a maj
