CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

Outside was dewy and a lot of floating water beads settled on their skins. Some students loitered about under the starry skies that glowed and died again. There was always one star that glowed brighter than every other shiny dot on the blue black sky and Ashley felt like that star in her shiny gait. She sighted Kelvin's lucid self and doubled her steps to catch up and ended up nearly tripping over a hedge because a sharp rusty nail pierced her foot, but stopping her weight almost immediately from landing helplessly to the ground in a loud thud by hurriedly placing a foot before another. Kelvin turned back almost immediately and noticed how she struggled to pull out a rusty nail from the thicket that pierced her sole through her shoe.