29Aided immeasurably by adrenaline, they attained the slope's summit in ten minutes. Mike Di Librio scanned the shrine using the binoculars which he had buried in a plastic bag under a large rock the night before. The door was still padlocked, so no one had yet arrived.
"I guess we're in time," he said.
"What if they don't come?" Cornelius inquired.
"That would be perfectly fine with me," Millson responded, although that might also mean Simon Jacobs would be killed elsewhere. The minister's mind raced through all of the circumstances that led them to this place and time. Had they misinterpreted the evidence? Was this all a flight of rampant imagination?
At 7:01 the first rumble of thunder rolled through the area. Dark clouds ascended on the western horizon threatening to engulf the lat
