Chapter
Twenty-Two
Kristie studied Jason’s expression change as
he contemplated the path ahead. “What is it?” she asked.
He shook his head and said, “We’d better get
going. We have a cave to explore and I don’t want to be coming back
down this path in the dark.”
There was more, but he seemed reluctant to
talk about it. Worry for his friend weighed heavily on him and that
might be all of it.
The shrubs disappeared as the path skirted a
curve of the hill. On their right the land rose sharply above them,
while on the left it fell off. The trail was a good three feet wide
here, broad enough to let them walk comfortably with no serious
danger of a fall, and there was another foot or so of underbrush
between the edge of the path and the drop-off.
They rounded a rocky outcropping
