Josie's steps faltered. "We don't need to wait for him. He had something to do, so he left."
Rhona Cameron noticed the shift in her mood. Her eyes swept over Josie's face for a moment, and then she didn't mention Lucas Lockwood's name again.
They soon reached the landslide, where a huge section of the mountainside had collapsed.
The group had no choice but to detour through the adjacent mountain forest.
They walked for two days and two nights before finally emerging from the sprawling mountain range.
The highway ahead snaked through fields overgrown with weeds on both sides.
Though Rhona Cameron was getting on in years, she was still spry and didn't slow them down.
"This town isn't large. We could go around it. It'd be safer."
Felix Fields, however, raised a hand, stopping them just as they were about to turn onto a side path.
Using one hand to vault off a nearby abandoned vehicle, he landed deftly on its roof.
