Myka and Alice each took Ashleigh under an arm, carrying her up through the dark tunnel.
Though Alice hobbled and struggled to run with the injury to her leg, Ashleigh was utterly spent. The energy she had used to harness Lily’s power and the wound in her back had stolen the last of her reserves.
They could barely make it to the tunnel leading up from the center of the mound before the explosion.
Alice glanced back into the darkness in the direction they had come from. She furrowed her brows and then turned her attention back toward the exit, still a long way ahead.
“How is it that this tunnel hasn’t collapsed?” she asked. “You set all the charges. That should have been more than enough to topple this section of the mountain.”
“Are you complaining?” Myka asked with a grunt as he adjusted Ashleigh’s position on his shoulder.
“Not a complaint, more of a question,” Alice replied with a hiss as the shifting of Ashleigh’s weight pulled at her still-tender shoulder.
