Chapter 19 Mark
I wasn't sure if lightning had struck or someone had shot at us.
One minute I was in heaven; now my heart raced from a different kind of excitement altogether as I searched for the origin of the sound.
There was no one else on the path.
If Robin hadn't also been looking around with a worried expression, I would have thought I’d imagined the noise.
As if she’d read my mind, Robin asked, “You heard that too, right?”
“Yeah, I heard it. It sounded like a gunshot.”
She nodded, her expression grim. “That's what I thought. But there’s nobody here.”
Ahead of us were the empty ruins and windswept, rocky cliff edge. Behind us was the empty trail. I couldn't see a vantage point for a sniper, and nothing seemed out of place. But as I turned back to the ruins, something shimmere
