CHAPTER SIX
Elisa and Rahul followed Dansh to the entrance of the cave, where they saw a festoon of skulls hanging. The hollows in the place of the eyes and mouth were beaming with the fire from the cressets, which hung in the torch holders separately from the skulls on both sides of the cave all the way in as far as their eyes could see, casting a scary image. It was as if the skulls were staring at them and ready to swallow them alive.
For a moment, Elisa thought, I should have listened to Rahul. Perhaps he was right. But the next moment, she pushed her musings aside.
“Is something troubling you?” asked Dansh before Elisa could let the words out of her mouth.
Rahul still was gaping at the skulls; his brain seemed to have stopped sending signals allowing him to act or speak.
“What’s
