Chapter Fifteen

Elaina stared out the window at the hills and farmlands that passed by.  So far they had been on the road for five hours and still not a single town in sight.

Chase had insisted he had known where he was going since he had travelled to the other temples before.  Never being out of her own town Elaina had to take his word for it since she didn’t know the way.  

Neither she nor Chase had said anything since starting off.  

So many questions lay restless in Elaina’s mind, but she just couldn’t bring herself to wonder them aloud.  

Chase had been nice enough not to try to start conversation, instead he was content in leaving her to her thoughts.

Stars blazed brightly overhead, all them easy to see without the lights of the city blocking them out.  

Elaina remembered being a child and laying in the woods while camping out, staring up at the night sky and thinking how small she felt staring at the un