“Well that’s something you don’t see every day,” she said, and looked at Coup, who only shrugged.
“When you gotta go, you gotta go,” he said. “He went.”
“But don’t you see?” said Abbie, barely able to control her excitement. “That thing’s big enough to hold all of us.” She started jumping up and down and waving her arms, enthusiastically. “Hey! Over here! D.C. or bust!”
And, save for Tess and Coup, as well as Long, Rory and Bo (all of whom had had their fill of Donald J. Tucker) the others promptly joined in, hooting and hollering excitedly, hitching their thumbs, acting as though they were saved even though the wall was still at least half a mile away and the main wave of lava was coming fast—fast enough that it could be seen in the distance preceded by the two dinosaurs, which were ru
