Chapter Seventeen

The volcano pushed her forward with his staff, and Rori stumbled into the center of the courtyard, falling down next to a pile of what looked like firewood with a large pole in the middle. Rori did not move. She seemed frozen with uncertainty. Her mind was still numb from the amount of information trying to be shoved into it. Then she felt a familiar set of arms, and she peered up to see Kristi and Mason pulling her to her feet.  

Rori flung her arms around them both sobbing and Kristi hit her knees, “Oh my god, Kristi you, are ok,” Kristi was crying so hard Max had to pick her up off the ground, “what did they do to her Mace, why are you guys here, what is this place?” Rori asked and Mason looked at her with tears in his eyes, followed by an emotion she had never seen from him before, fear.