The ride to the hotel room was a tense one. Grip and Griffin shared a car with Soren and I while Ayesha and Christa followed behind us in another car. Although Griffin had tried to lighten the atmosphere with a few jokes, Grip wasn't having it. Every now and then, he would glance at Soren and I through the inside rearview mirror. Grip's hands tightened around the wheel everytime I responded to Griffin's joke. When Griffin realised that he couldn't lighten the situation, he stopped trying. Just when we pulled up in front of the salt hotel we would be staying in, I broke the spell I had placed on Soren. He groaned awake, squinting at the sunlight. "Where are we?" "Uyuni," I replied. "U...what?" he snapped, sitting up abruptly. "I thought you needed a vacation so I brought you to Boliv

