26. Safely Home-1
26 Safely Home Emilia led the way, holding her torch high. Claire was under one of Connor’s arms and Jacob the other. Connor gasped and winced with every step. “We should rest,” Claire whispered after a while. Connor's face had turned an eerie shade of green. “Not yet,” Connor said through clenched teeth. “I can do a bit more.” The tunnel twisted lazily around, sloping up and down as though it had no purpose other than to make them keep moving. “I see something. I think it’s a―” Emilia stopped, kneeling down and reaching her hand forward. “It’s a what?” Claire asked. “We’re going to have to crawl through” Emilia lowered her torch for them all to see. The tunnel had narrowed and turned to rock. There was a hole at the base of the wall that would barely be big enough for Jacob to s
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