ANDREW'S RESCUE

NOAH

— What if he isn't on Volcann, what if this is one of Direl's grand schemes to lure you in, and trap you? — Yan asks as we walk between the trees of the forest that gives access to the bridge that connects the petrified area of the territory to Volcann.

— I don't know Noah, I don't want to be pessimistic, but what if it doesn't work out? Or we don't find it, what will we do?

— Oh, shut up, my God! I heard something, shhh!

I look around.

— What's it?

— No, shhhh!

— What's it?

— I don't know, I think it came from there! — Balck says and points to a dark cavern just a few meters to our right. —There's something there.

— What? I ask, approaching the cave.

— Calm down, not so fast! — Yan holds me by the arm.

— Stay there, I'll look! — Balck says.

— Be careful! Yan replies.

Balck walks towards the cave, slowly. He stops beside the entrance, half-hides himself in a mound of crowded leaves, and carefully cranes his neck inward. Yan and I watched in silence.

— I think I made a mistake, I