CHAPTER 35Sam jogged out from under the overpass, and watched the dragon run down the road and leap into the air. He turned on his heel and called back to the pile of rubble, “Mara! Are you out here?” Bohannon walked up, carrying a flashlight. He swept the roadway and the shoulder, making a point of looking behind mounds of debris scattered everywhere. No sign of Mara. Sam pointed to the intact portion of the overpass on the right side of the road and said, “I think at some point she was up there. The lightning that hit the dragon was coming from above, and it wasn’t coming from the clouds.” Bohannon pointed the light at the collapsed section of the overpass and ran it up toward the balustrade of the intact portion. “I’m not following you. What does Mara have to do with the lightning?”

