Chapter 228

I stood there, stunned, as the mouth of the cave closed up like a mountain. It was like there had never been an opening at all.

Xavier seemed just as surprised as I was, even though he had known what to expect. He hadn’t seen the artifact in action before, so he was impressed that it worked perfectly.

"Where did Maisie get that?" I asked, still staring at the magic that had just happened.

"She didn’t get it. She made it," Xavier said, turning away.

He quickly erased as many car tracks as he could, covering those he couldn’t, before walking back to me.

"We shouldn’t waste any more time. I’ll shift and you hold on tight, alright?" he said. He seemed too alert and in a hurry to make a joke about it.

"Alright," I replied. Then, I asked, cautiously, "Xavier, is everything okay?"

"I’m not sure yet," he said, looking around. "Whatever it is, it’s too far for now." He turned to me seriously. "Let’s not wait for it to reach us."

Before I could ask anything else, Xavier dropped to his knees. In