Spider Gap by Kristen Joy Wilks

Author:Kristen Joy Wilks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
ISBN: 9781522301035
Publisher: Pelican Book Group
Published: 2018-01-17T16:00:00+00:00

16

Spider Gap

After a blistering lecture on safety, whereupon Lilly was disturbed to discover that Tristian’s cave avoidance lecture was full of interesting facts, and more passionately given than her own, they proceeded to the top of the meadow and the beginning of the glacier. She wondered if Tristian would be willing to come to her class and speak on the value of mathematics or if a near-death experience was required for him to reach this level of eloquence on a subject. Could she manufacture a fraction-related danger?

The last few miles up the meadow had been silent ones, the children apparently shocked by her fabulous leap into danger.

Tristian’s head was bobbing at the front of the line with no small amount of ire. Would he have left a little dog on its own, beneath the groaning ice, and been able to sleep with a clean conscience?

Lilly increased the wattage of her glare. Probably, the heartless fiend.

When they finally reached the head of the meadow, within the shadow of Phelps Basin, they stopped to make camp.

Tristian walked to where Lilly had dumped the contents of her tent bag.

Lilly hadn’t realized she’d been staring down at the innocent-looking collection of nylon that had caused her so much consternation the night before. How embarrassing. He must think she was completely helpless, as well as reckless, and wearing shoes that distinctly smelled of sweaty honey.

Tristian paused behind her for a moment, then reached out and took the tarp. He didn’t say anything, just shook the tarp out, spread it, and picked up her tent, repeating the process. He gave Lilly a look, as though wondering why she was still there, staring at the rogue camping equipment that was surely awaiting the opportune time to collapse upon her or leap into some random body of water with her trapped inside.

“Why don’t you go make yourself a cup of cocoa, Lilly? You look beat and the kids could do with some watching while they’re heating up water for the spaghetti.”

A more accurate observation would be hard to find. Lilly glanced over Tristian’s shoulder and couldn’t help but notice that the boys were constructing torches out of sticks and long strands of lichen while the girls braided flowers into Natasha’s hair, unmindful that the hissing blue flame heating the noodles was only an inch away from their friend’s long, dark locks.

Lilly gave Tristian a small smile of thanks and rushed toward Owen, who had just lit his torch on fire and was waving it wildly above his head in a vain attempt to put it out. Lilly dove forward and snatched the flaming stick from his hands. She jammed the end into the soil and kicked dirt on top of the sizzling lichen. How could everyone think that she was the irresponsible daredevil of the group?

Her stomach ached as she realized that she couldn’t explain her actions. That ten people would forever think she had plunged into the icy maw of that hazardous cavern just because an adventurous mood had squelched her sense of reasonable caution.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.