Blind Alley
“"Jump!"Antonio held out his arms. "Now, Cira. I'll catch you."Jump? The crack was too wide and getting wider every second.No time. No other choice. She leaped across the crack. The heat seared her legs even as her feet touched the opposite ledge.It crumbled beneath her!Then he was yanking her upward and forward in one movement."I've got you. "Antonio's hands grasped her forearms and they were stumbling backward.Another rumble."We've got to get out of this passage." Cira glanced over her shoulde...r.The crack was widening, gaping."You said you knew the way," Cira gasped. "Prove it. Get us out of here.""Only you'd be stubborn enough to wait until you saw the gates of hell to say that to me." Antonio grabbed her hand and started at a dead run down the tunnel. "The crack seems to be going across the tunnel. We can't go back, but it's not following us.""If it doesn't cause the roof to cave in when it tries to devour the other wall."Heat.The lava behind them was gobbling what little air was still in the tunnel."Then we'd better be out of this branch of the tunnel before it happens.MoreLess
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