The Fifth Ward students walking with the Energy Crystals they were embracing were uneasy; their heads could not stay in a fixed direction. Even though the Far Circle gave them hell, they knew where and from whom the danger would come, but now all possibilities were open.
Mel continued walking without saying a word. When an obstacle stood in their way, he cleared them, sometimes stopping to listen, and after an hour's walk, he came to a stop in front of a rocky hill more than ten paces high.
Carrying two Elemental Seeds in his body, Mel did not come here by chance. After seeing the slit through which a human could bend down, he headed there and disappeared into the rocks. Twenty-one people followed him and walked until they came to a clearing from the ceiling where stalactites protruded.
