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Salvador had no idea where they were. He’d walked out of his parent’s house on his own steam, confident he’d handled the confrontation as best he could, but his mind was teeming, too full of facts and memories. Overloaded, he blindly followed Gia, trusting she would lead them… anywhere else.
When the ground covered them again, he barely noticed, not until it spit them back out again in an unfamiliar clearing. Salvador staggered to sit on a rock under a shade tree while Gia examined the divining rod, turning it over and over in her hands.
“Are you all right?” she asked after a minute.
He glanced up. Her eyes were uncharacteristically soft on his face. “I know that must have been a shock for you, finding out your mother is with child again.”
Salvador took a steadying breath, blinking
