“What do you imagine made this, girl?” He gestured towards the line through the earth that ran off in both directions into infinity. “Must’ve been awfully big.” The smile he wore told Azure that he knew exactly what had cut its way through their road and that he was afraid of it.
“Real big,” she agreed.
Without warning, Kurt stepped from the ledge and dropped a good five feet to the circular sloping sides of the cut before sliding all the way to the bottom. With a smile still on his face, he turned back to look up to Azure at the edge. She shared his smile and realized suddenly that she was still holding Tikdat in her left hand. Azure tucked the toy away and prepared herself to jump into the dirt after him.
“Wait,” he said. He stumbled his way back up the sloping dirt as best as he coul
