Chapter 27People almost fought to be the last off, amusing Adam. Most of the women went first, the men gallantly insisting on it, too macho to go before the ladies. It took almost an hour, people going up in twos, sometimes with one of the dogs. Adam grew more nervous all the time, fearing a disastrous quake at the last moment would rip the ground from under their feet. He kept looking at the gaps in the ring of mountains that had once circled the island and imagined Shusara vanishing next.
At last there were only four of them left. Adam, Simon, Torres, and Jones. Adam thought of the link he had to everyone who’d set out with them. They’d made it. Through fear and pain, they’d kept on climbing. Passing through this danger together had bonded him to all of them, not only to Zach. Soon they
