Pendragon Before the War by D. J. MacHale

Author:D. J. MacHale
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2009-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

An hour later she heard noises above her—rapid, determined footsteps. Dados? She wasn’t sure. As long as she’d been digging, she felt okay. As soon as she’d stopped, though, she felt afraid. So she ignored the footsteps and kept digging.

Moments later the excav team bustled into the crypt from the spiral staircase. Their flashlights probed the darkness.

“She’s still here,” Bart said, his beam coming to rest on Elli as she leaned deep into the hole.

“False alarm, Elli,” one of the diggers said. “Turned out the watchers had spotted a herd of farm animals.”

“I know you’re probably upset that we left you,” Olana said, “but we told you very clearly that we couldn’t—”

She broke off. Elli looked up from the hole. The excav team stared as she lifted a small metal box free from the dirt and set it down gently on the ground.

“Oh my gosh,” Olana said. “She found it.”

“It was right where she said it would be,” one of the other diggers added wonderingly.

There was a moment of stunned silence.

Elli climbed out of the hole and dusted off the dirty knees of her pants. She was not a pushy person. But sometimes she just knew something.

“I think it would be best if you brought me on the next excav,” she said.

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