Chapter 9The kid was a genius. Earlier he’d cut a strip from the tail of his shirt to make a tie for his hair, and once he’d regained consciousness, he tore off pieces of shirt and left them for me to follow.
The trail ended at the base of Tengkorak Mountain, before a cave-like opening, and when I reached it, I had to double over to catch my breath. Jesus, I’d never felt so old.
Puella kept going down the trail, so I assumed her mama wasn’t around just now, which I hoped also meant that son of a b***h Maximus wasn’t either.
I had to move fast. I darted into the mountain. The cave didn’t end in a blank wall. A passageway led off it, and damn, more passageways branched off from the main one.
Oddly enough, even though I went in progressively deeper, the light didn’t fade. I ran my fingers
