Cliffside

Everything will be okay

Cell marched down the halls till he came to the entrance of Cliffside. Tanner stood there his face tear stricken and red.

"I guess you heard she left. You should not have come back." Tanner held back a sob hardly hiding his emotions.

"I was with her but she is no longer with us." he fell to his knees crying and Cell nearly fell back in shock.

"What do you mean?" he asked through clenched teeth as he saw the kids around him begin to sob.

"I found her in the woods sick I tried all I could!" he was gasping through his words. Cell stood there unsure how to take this news.

"Please keep calm, if you can't then go to your room. Those of you who can keep your composer stay here." all but hardly a pinch of kids stayed, including Jamie.

"Jamie do you think you would be able to tell her brothers? They all were very close to you." he hated putting that on her but the boys deserved to know. She nodded somber for the first time he had ever seen.

"The rest of you." he said to the two kids left.

"Tell everyone I will hold a meeting to break the news." like an egg, once he breaks it to them, there is bound to be a mess. He was now alone in the small glow of sunlight coming from the gape in the cliff.

"I can do this. Rock believed I could do this. I will do this, and I will lead these children. For Rock." he turned and walked down the dim halls of Cliffside.

"Everything will be okay."

(sorry if this end upset you please stick around for book 2 where you will get to see more of rock and even learn her real name)