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Jacobs called out an order in ringing, authoritative tones as he waved toward the stairs leading up into the temple.
Staines sprinted for them.
“No!” Dawson screamed as he scrambled out from behind a broken fall of stone. “You can’t go! Not without the mirror!”
Adam reached Ellie. He grabbed her arm and tugged her in the direction of the door to the temple.
“No!” she shouted back, hauling him the opposite way.
“What?” Adam exclaimed.
She gripped his arms. Her eyes were clear and intent even as the stones rumbled beneath their feet once more.
Another crack opened near the mirror’s pillar and splintered across the ground.
“Trust me,” she said.
Adam did.
He let her pull him forward, racing across the cavern as more rocks cracked and plummeted from the ceiling. She yelled to Charlie and the others. With a stream of Quebecois curses, Lessard led the charge to follow.
Kuyoc darted from his hiding place and fell into step behind them with an alacrity that belied his age.
Ellie headed for the water.
At the other end of the cave, Jacobs waved the men into the passage to the pyramid. Dawson lurched back from the mirror as the crack beside it tore wider with an ear-splitting wrench.
The platform on which the stone sat tilted dangerously.
Pickett sprinted past him, and finally Dawson ran.
Something pinged off the toe of Adam’s boot and spun across the floor of the cavern ahead of him.
It was a slender little bone, and as Adam watched, it spluttered with flashes of nascent light.
Ellie cast a surprised look back at him—and then snatched it from the ground as she raced past.
She shoved the bone into her pocket as she reached the edge of the deep, churning mass of water at the end of the cavern. She stopped there.
“This is going to sound crazy!” she yelled as Adam joined her.
Adam tugged her into his arms.
“I’m with you,” he promised as he gazed down at her.
It was true. The fact of it warmed him up from the inside giddily.
Ellie’s face brightened with relief.
“Good,” she replied—and then launched herself into the current.
It plucked her up like a leaf and whisked her into a dark, jagged mouth that Adam could now see opened at the far corner of the cavern.
Adam gaped after her.
Kuyoc wheezed with laughter beside him. With a hoot of triumph, he leapt into the water as well and shot after Ellie.
“Are they cracked?” Charlie demanded as he skidded to a stop beside Adam and stared wide-eyed at the water.
