Chapter 95

"For all those lights, so vividly alive, shining more brightly still,

began a song that glides like falling leaves from memory.

-Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

"What if this is a repeat of Gj鰈l? What if something happens to one of you?" I asked, turning around and staring at my friends that were ready to follow me all the way to the island. Everything about this set-up looked just like another trap. Ricky had spent weeks in the hospital fighting for his life and now I was dragging him into yet another dangerous mission.

"Max, we have gone over this, it's seven of us. Together we are much stronger," Zachary insisted, and glanced towards the dark waters. So far Alexis knew about my every step, but she couldn't have known that I connected with her in the maze, that I knew she was keeping Summer in that tower.