Chapter 60

"To get back up to the shining world from there

My guide and I went into that hidden tunnel,"

-Dante Alighieri, Inferno

"She is very beautiful," I said, not even knowing why my voice was breaking. Zach was fighting with himself to remain calm and I knew exactly what he was going through. Hot air rushed in and out of my nose as I tried to hold back my tears. My own insecurities and secrets were sealed deep inside my heart. This little girl had lost her mother. Zara had abandoned her, for what? Just so she could experience the other world, experience demonic power? I didn't want to believe that she was such a coward.