Enter the Core by Peter Lerangis

Author:Peter Lerangis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-01-19T05:00:00+00:00

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HUGGING was Max’s least favorite human activity, just below crying. But right now Alex was doing activity number two because she was sad. And he was doing activity number one because he knew it would make her feel better.

Sometimes you had to.

Max was sad too. He could not shake the smell of skunk. And Kristin was sitting against the wall with her knees pulled up around her face. “It’s my fault,” she said. “I should have forced him to stay behind. We could have waited behind the rock door and opened it for you when you got back.”

“Maybe he’s OK . . .” Alex said. “You heard water, right, Max?”

Max nodded. “Really far down, though. So if it was deep, he might have done a big belly flop and survived. But if was shallow, he probably cracked his skull open and died instantly.”

Kristin grimaced. “I . . . I will choose optimism.”

“It’s about all we can do,” Alex replied, wiping her eyes with her sleeve. “Brandon can be crude, but he’s a wonderful pilot and a sweet man. And we owe him. He saved our lives by landing on the water. And he was the one who led us here.”

“Let’s see if we can find him,” Max said, standing up. “Or his corpse, before it rots.”

“Max!” Alex snapped.

“Sorry.” Max stood. He flicked on his light and walked toward the carving on the wall.

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