Kelly couldn’t believe it. Travis looked at her, his jaw slack. Angie collapsed to her knees. Parrish knelt on one leg beside her.
“Something’s not right here,” said Parrish. “They’ve got to be okay.”
Murmurs arose from the crowd.
“How come they left the people behind that they went to rescue?”
Somebody cried out, “Here comes another one!”
Kelly looked up hopefully, but what she saw next wasn’t even possible. Chris walked out of the cave with no apparent injury, and he wasn’t wearing the splint Travis had made for him. He didn’t even show a slight limp as he stopped before the crowd.
“Are you Chris McCormick?” said a trooper.
“Yes, I’m Chris McCormick, and I’m fine. But I have much work to do. I must work hard and fast.”
“We heard you had a broken leg!”
Chris ignored the comment j
