Chapter 3
WHAM!
WHACK!
CRASH!
“Aaaaaaah!”
“Oof!”
BOOM!
Creeeeeeeeeeak…
POW!
Lara Stella rolled across dirt and shielded her face as something crashed next to her and threw up a tremendous cloud of dust.
Then, metal shrieking.
The ground shook.
Glass shattered.
And silence.
Her eyes adjusted to the darkness and she found Mint lying next to her, coughing. She immediately scooped the girl in close, hugging her.
Far, far above, from where she had fallen, the lights of the Middle Rind glittered. There was a hole in the plate at least one city block wide, and through it she could see the Nutrizeen Labs skyscraper. It was leaning and on fire.
She gasped.
Then looked around.
“Graeme! Where are you?” she asked.
She heard more coughing nearby.
Graeme crawled from a pile of rubble
