It wasn’t dark yet, just midafternoon, but night would come as it always did. Kelly clearly had no business being so close to the cave, but she needed to know what the rescue team was planning. And she didn’t want to leave the park until they found Jon.
Ranger Laarz scanned the faces of her co-rescuers with a steel-edged look in her eyes. She was a take-charge kind of person and had clearly decided that her first order of business was to settle their nerves as quickly as possible.
“Where was the epicenter?” asked an older African American man with massive shoulders and a deep voice. This guy looked bigger than Dr. Parrish. Could he even fit through some of the narrow places inside the cave?
“Right here in the park,” said Laarz. “Or more accurately, about a quarter mile into the cave. Lo
