#CHAPTER 123: A New Threat

Sarah POV I really wanted to stay with Grace and Chloe, and Zane and I needed to go back to the Abrigan Mine to celebrate the opening of a new school in the area for training people to work in geothermal energy. It had been thrown up in record time and was staffed with people I knew had been schooling children unofficially before that, so we had to go, and we took the children with us, including Jordan, after we’d called his parents. The helicopter set down in the middle of the mine, whose tiers now climbed up to the sky all around us. To my surprise, the rotors were blowing away little stacks of wildflowers that had been tied in bundles, and when we disembarked, I saw more bundles and little groupings of candles that had been burning but were now out. “They’re for you,” Zane told me as I stood over three candles tied together with a bit of ribbon. I reached into my purse, hoping for some stray matchbook even though I was pretty sure I didn’t have one. “Here, Miss Sarah,” one