Chapter Seventeen
The ground shifted again. I fell to my knees as the ground beneath my bare feet quaked. The walls of the lab shook and a few of the glass containers hurtled toward the floor.
But not a single enclosure crashed to the earth. Fast as lightning, Eden darted and dove. She caught one, and then another, and then placed them on a solid surface. Then she sprang up and dipped low to catch more as the seismic shifts continued.
She moved so fast, the room seemed to bend around her. Particles flew past her, moving out of her way so that she could save her precious specimens. While Eden was busy on her rescue mission, I realized we had an opening.
Loren had fallen to the floor when the orb had slipped through her fingers. Michael was scrambling over to the sphere, trying to scoop
