CHAPTER THIRTY
Shell followed Stinger, Treehugger, Blizzard, and Space down the front steps, to the foot of the platform, where Bolt, White, and Talon now stood over the corpses of Eli, Mann, and Pantalone. Shell could not quite believe everything that had happened. Despite having acted quickly upon exiting the portal, Shell was still in shock. In particular, Bolt’s final attack had nearly taken him by surprise; if he hadn’t noticed Bolt in the nick of time, he feared that he and the other Young Neos would have ended up looking only slightly better than the Venetians.
For the moment, all he could think about was how he had managed to find a portal back in that strange forest that led him back to Earth. A strange, elf-like person had informed him that the portal would indeed take him back
