The Old Mine

11: Lost

                    Cal rolled over not wanting to wake up yet. She drifted back to sleep then the pain hit her, sirens sounding all over her body. Suddenly wide awake, she clenched her fist and blinked rapidly as the pain peaked then ebbed. She focused instead on the room around her to distract herself from the pain and discomfort, the three guys were talking, unfortunately she came in at the end of the conversation, so it took her a second to figure out what they were yelling about.

                    "And what the hell do they mean by adding the item still rings back with your team to the argument" Midnight rolled his eyes and started to pace. "I thought we were going with the theory that Cal was the item or that she set off the alarm when she was going to enter the mine and be killed..." His head nodded back and forth like he was a bobble head as he spoke. Something that he did when annoyed. "What are we missing, what haven't we found or sent?"

                    "What's left to send?" Recke laughed "How could it still be here, we've sent half the valley forward!"

                    "Or blew it up" Tahk added with a smirk.

                    Midnight laughed at Tahk's comment then straightened his face out and got serious again "But not the old mine." He turned to face Recke "We need to send the mine."

                    "Won't help, both alarms went off when I went near the mine and would have been or..." She flinched from the pain "Almost was killed." Cal sat up slowly as all eyes were suddenly on her "Besides, so many artifacts have been removed from the mine throughout history. They're in museums and private collections throughout the valley."

                    "And the arrogant white man's family still believe they own the entire valley and can do what they want." Midnight ran his hands through his hair and groaned, the tension raising his heart rate.

                    "Apparently our plan failed." Cal nodded angrily. "Okay, plan B..."

                    "Big time fail." Tahk took a bite of jerky and slumped down into a chair. ""What's plan B?

                    "How we can shake up the town, change their attitudes. Make them turn on that family." Cal was trying to focus through the pain.

                     "I'm thinking that if we scare them enough, they will just deliver the items to the mine." Recke was standing, rocking and thinking.

                    "They have to be pretty scared already; I mean half the valley is on fire or covered in lava. Wait... what if they..." She paused and looked at Tahk. "Do you know who is in charge of the Iniko Front Group?"

                     "No, as far as we know they operate independently of the entire system which is why we can't find them." Tahk shrugged. "We tend to believe that they dictate their own jumps independently."

                     "No" Cal frowned "Can't be, they would be less organized and more chaotic."

                      Midnight noticed that Cal was acting the way she normally does when she is on to something. "What are you thinking?"

                       "I'm actually thinking that this white man's family is involved in the Iniko Front Group." All eyes widened as Cal continued. "Why else have they been able to save themselves with what we did." She thought "But how or who is in charge and how do they manage to keep..." Her head spun a bit "Woah,"

                     "Take it easy please." Recke was worried about her.

                      Cal took a ragged breath "Why does everything hurt!"