Trines

Trines (18)

Chapter 18

Rebecca didn’t know if anyone followed after her. Her main concern was to get away. Hiding together would just be stupid. So she ran out of that room and into the one across from that.

She let her feet carry her to the very end of the room, and then she sat down behind a stone pillar that hid her from sight, but she could still see everything going on in the room. She felt someone sit down beside her and jumped. There had been no footsteps following after her.

Alex was sitting there, grinning at her.

“I couldn’t let you come here alone, could I?” he asked her.

Rebecca smiled softly back at him.

“Yeah, yeah, it’s so cute that you followed after her, but please, spare me the details,” Ava said.

They both jumped and stared at the younger girl. Neither of them had heard her coming.

“What?” Ava asked. “You think I want to be stuck with the love birds in there? I’m sure the second I walked out they threw themselves at each other.”

Ava shuddered in disgust at the mental image she had just created for herself.

“Great, now I need to puke,” she said.

Rebecca instinctively crawled farther away from her, but made sure she could still see the room. She hadn’t paid any attention to her surroundings before now.

In the middle of the room was a table made of stone. She could just see the edges of the pentagram carved into the top of it. For some reason it seemed wrong on a level she couldn’t even comprehend. She cradled the pentagram necklace with the ruby red gem in the middle she wore. The one Jennifer – or Alex – had bought for her in Florida. A sense of calmness brushed over her.

There had to be something wrong with the pentagram on the table.

The rest of the room was pretty much bare. The walls were uneven like the rest of the cave. But nothing else stood out to her.

“Now what do we do?” she asked.

“We wait,” Alex replied, staring straight ahead as well.

“For what?” Ava asked.

“For an idea to come to either of us,” Alex replied grimly, never loosing focus on the room.

Rebecca and Ava exchanged a glance and then Ava fell down against the rocks.

“I have a feeling this might take some time,” she grumbled as she closed her eyes.

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“Where are they going?” Jennifer asked, staring after Ava as she ran out of the room.

“I have no idea,” Drew replied, staring into the room.

It was the same empty room he had discovered when he had tried to find Ava before.

He began walking out of the room. Something about the empty room creeped him out. Drew had seen Rebecca run into the room directly across from this one, so her decided to go into the one on the end of the hallway. He heard Jennifer trail behind him, so he knew she would be coming with him. That pleased him as being alone in these caves was a little frightening.

He entered the room that had seemed like an office. The plain wooden desk and chair was still sitting in the middle of the room, untouched. The pool of blood in the corner had gained a brighter color, telling Drew that another thing had been killed in the brief time they had been captured.