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“Emily,” Jason said, “I heard something.”
Emily's head jerked up and then she remembered that Jason was below her and she looked down. Jason was staring at the plains below the edge. Emily climbed down the tree and ran over to him. She could see a puff of dirt that was tossed up in the distance.
Emily squinted her eyes. “What is it?”
“I don't know,” he said. “Should we head out there?”
“I think we should,” she replied. “We have nowhere else to go.”
Chapter 11
“Jazell!” Seth yelled, but his voice was muffled by the dirt flying everywhere.
I grabbed at something, anything, but there was no hold. “Seth, where are you?”
I thought that he said something but, I couldn't hear him. All I could hear was the blood pounding in my ear and my racing heartbeat. Dirt fell into my mouth and I coughed, trying to get rid of it. My vision was closing, getting dark.
I'm tired...
I closed my eyes as I fell into darkness.
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