Chapter 23

The previously untested one—a brownish-yellow crystal that technically belonged to Terrell’s youngest brother—turned out to cause thunderstorms. Rain, lightning, hail, the works. They could use it in combination with the snow if they had to, but doing so might raise suspicions with the locals. The last thing they needed were innocent bystanders getting involved.

Two of the stones still remained a mystery and were thus essentially useless. Nonetheless, since most of them agreed with the defense theory, Eleanor wore the one belonging to Terrell’s sister, and she told her cousin to wear and activate his. While he said he would, he gave the same instruction to Dakota when they had a few brief minutes to themselves. It took a couple tries, but he eventually pronounced it right: “A’kash eta ma.”

When he looked inside his shirt, he could see it glowing green in places. But three layers of cloth hid it from view, and he intended to keep it that way.