The rain started in heavy and kept falling. At first it was a pleasant sound to sleep to, but the relentless pounding, in the end, woke everyone. After a while their convenient sand bar started to get wet. As the water rose it started coming up through the floor of the tent. Amaris began feeling cold and within moments realized that she was getting wet. "The tent is getting wet on the inside too." Amaris said sitting up suddenly. Amaris and Lyle scrambled up as they heard the cries of surprise from the others in the other tent. Looking around the tent they could see that the water was starting to rise and they soon realized that they too were starting to flood. They could no longer stay here. Lyle grabbed the two backpacks that were at their feet and handed one to Amaris. “Fit everything that you can in these. If you come across anything that is waterproof that we could put over Gran, hold it aside. We will need it to move her out of here.” Amaris grabbed everything she could we

Amaris sucked in a breath. She never dreamed that Marco was helping Adam. “But then Gran contacted me and told me to find you. She said that you were in the river and to get you safe. They will meet us there.” Marco continued unaware that Amaris’ heart rate had just spiked in fear. “Gran is awake?! Where are they? Is everyone else ok?” Marco looked at her questioningly. “I do not know. Gran contacted me in a dreamscape and told me to take you to my hunting cabin. I built it a few months ago and Gran is the only other person who knows where it is.” Marco explained.“A dreamscape? What is that?” Amaris asked curious. There were so many things in this new world that she knew nothing about. “I will let her explain it to you since she is the witch. Come. We need to get moving. “. Marco waved her on and then walked into the forest. Amaris was still frozen in her spot. What did he mean Gran was a witch. Did he mean a literal one? Marco stopped again and turned back to Amaris. “We need to

He waves Lyle over, and Amaris follows behind too. Marco turns back to his computer monitor but scoots his chair to one side so that Lyle can take a look. It was video footage from a camera. The footage was grainy, black and white, and was from a camera mounted high up but you are still able to see that the man on the screen is Adam. He appeared to be waiting for someone. After a few seconds, a dark colored car pulls up and rolls down the window. It was a woman at the wheel. Adam bent down and kissed her. They spoke for a few minutes. The conversation became an argument, and the woman sped off without any warning. Marco rewound the video and played it again, but slowed it down to the part where the woman’s face was the most visible. He froze the screen and asked Lyle “Do you know her?” As he brought up an enlargement of her face. Amaris gasped and put her hand over her mouth. Anna and her parents had now come over to see what they were looking at. Anna spoke first, pointing to the scre

Marco told Anna and Amaris to get all the provisions that they could find together and pack them in the remaining 2 backpacks. Anna was delighted when she found Marco's stash of caramello bars in the cabinet. He too had hidden spaces in the walls that had packs of things ready to go. "Marco, are all werewolves so paranoid? Lyle had a wall stash just like this." Amaris complained. Marco spun around in his chair to look at her with a big grin. "Who do you think he learned it from?" Marco chuckled to himself and turned back to his computer and printed some info. Standing up with the papers in hand, he stowed them in his back pack and moved toward the door shutting down monitors as he went."Are you girls ready to go?" Marco stood up and grabbed his coat and openned another cabinet in which a box was sitting by itself. He lifted the box and pulled the bottom flaps and out fell a passport. "I don't suppose that either of you girls have passports?" "I Do. It's back at my house though." Ann

After making contact with a very freaked out Anna's dad, Amaris also contacted Anna's mother and now they were all in the loop. "I am not sure this whole mind linking instataneous communication with my parents thing will be working in my favor as a teenager." Anna laughed. Marco chuckled. "You will have to ask Amaris if there is a way that she can shut it off, like a cell phone. No calls after midnight." At that thought, Anna's face lit up. She mind linked Amaris. "He is right! we can not be told to get off the phone by 10pm any more. Or even have the whole 'we are taking your phone away' as a punishment! Oh I love this!! Too bad that you did not discover this sooner." Anna and Amaris laughed. She could see that Marco was mind linking someone from the look on his face. “What is the plan Marco? I can see that you have one.” Amaris asked. Marco raised an eyebrow at her. He did not say anything for a minute, and then looked over at her. “So Lyle says I need to start running everything t