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The earth , Carnelian and Flare’s people

We can’t just stop Flare sounded shaky They want us to do so for them I can feel it

He may be a mountain, but he isn’t this o out She didn’t soundthat didn’t , she would try it even if she wasn’t certain she could succeed

He can talk to the otheras fast as I could If they all get together, they can do so Trust ravel Now me, I’ve been trapped I knohat it’s like to want out And I knoay--an easier way There’s a crack in the world You won’t have to break through anything The door’s already open

They drifted in the fault where we’d co at each other I shut up There’s a time to talk, and a time to keep still Sometiree

Flare asked, And where

Once I explained about the crack in the world some miles beyond the hollow chamber, Flare and Carnelian rushed off to tell the others Luvo had terrified theet away fro For one thing, theylike an emperor They weren’t stupid, after all, only not very experienced

For another, I wanted to have a ith Luvo I sensed him in the earth hundreds of yards above me He must have reached down as close to the volcano kids as he dared As quick as h stone and packed clay I stopped, drifting, when I felt Luvo’s power around me

LUVO! I shrieked He wasn’t the only one who could bellow

Evumeimei? He was confused and worried Why have you left Carnelian and Flare? Are you hurt? Did they escape you?

They’re convincing their idiot friends to co down there! Thanks for saving my life, but you lied to me!

He was quiet for a h less worried I cannot do anything so far from myself