Chapter 33
CATE HAS NEVER FELT so stunned in all her life. Nature has a way of shaking people up, but she can't help thinking the forces of evil had a hand in that large oak's collapse. The branches seem to be everywhere. It's like this tree has come from a world of giants and fallen down to Lilliputian Earth. It's just too big to be here.
If they hadn't moved, it would have fallen directly on the group. It was aiming right for them.
Except they hadn't all moved, had they? Not in the same direction.
When Ed overcomes the shock they all share, he wobbles to his feet. “Myrtle?” the old man squeaks, before collapsing to his knees.
Wendy is the youngest and the most resilient of them all. She rises confidently and calls out, “Myrtle? Where are you?”
Despite the continuing wind a
