The Legend of Red Horse Cavern by Gary Paulsen

Author:Gary Paulsen [Paulsen, Gary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-80395-5
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2011-08-23T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 7

Sarah sat up and stretched. She looked around the dark cave. “I was hoping I’d wake up and all this would be a bad dream.”

Will was pacing back and forth. She watched him for a few minutes. “What are you thinking about so hard?”

He stopped. “I was thinking that maybe you’re right. Maybe we have gone too far back. Chances are the goons are long gone by now. Why would they wait around? For all we know they left last night and we’re hiding back here for nothing.”

Will handed Sarah an apple. “What do you think?”

“We could check it out. If they’re still here, we can always come back.”

“True.” Will zipped his pack. He flashed his light on for a second. “Let’s go.”

Sarah held her apple in one hand and the back of Will’s shirt in the other. Will moved slowly, feeling each step before he took it. Four times he turned at the second passage, this time to his right, hoping to make up for all the dead ends they had run into earlier.

Will flashed his light around the walls of the fourth passage. Nothing looked familiar. He listened hard. Nothing. There was an eerie silence in the cavern.

“It doesn’t make sense, Sarah. By now we should be close to the front of the cave.”

“Face it, Will. We’re lost. The best we can do is to keep wandering around, hoping to find a way out.”

Will tried to backtrack in his mind. Where had he gone wrong? “Come on, Sarah. Somewhere between here and Red Horse’s cavern we missed a passage.”

Sarah fingered the statue in her pocket. “Maybe we shouldn’t have taken it.”

“What?”

“The statue. Maybe we should have left it for Red Horse.”

“Sarah, I think this damp air is affecting your brain.”

“It just doesn’t seem fair. He’s been looking for it all these years, and we find it by accident.”

“Maybe we’ll run into him and you can just hand it over.”

“Will?”

“Yeah.”

“Are you scared?”

“Would you believe me if I said I wasn’t?”

“No.”

“I’m scared, Sarah. Bad. But it doesn’t do either of us any good to think about it.” Will turned into the next passage. He flicked his light on. “Finally I recognize something. Remember that green pool, Sarah?”

She nodded. “I remember it but I couldn’t tell you from where. How far do you think we are from the front now?”

Will turned the light off and scratched his head. “It’s hard to say because we were moving so fast. But it couldn’t be more than four or five turns. From here on I’d better not use the light. Talk only if it’s an emergency.”

Sarah grabbed the back of his shirt again.

He took a couple of steps. “I’ve got an idea.” He slipped his belt off and handed one end to her. “Hang on to this. It’ll give us both more room to move.”

They continued silently down the passageway, feeling along the wall for the next turn. Will stepped with his right foot. Suddenly there was nothing under him. The ground had disappeared.

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