Jake came up alongside her, halted and looked around. The remarkable canyon walls rose five hundred feet on either side and towered above them. To Kai, it was as if a giant had slashed open the red desert and created the colorful marvel. The entrance was nothing more than a well-trodden rocky path that could barely be discerned to anyone but trackers. One thing her father did was teach her how to track. Now that skill had come in handy.The canyon was U-shaped, the walls of red, yellow and white sedimentary deposits stacked up like a layer cake. It reminded Kai of a colorful torte cake, with scraggly, tough gum trees around the top like frosting.As she studied the landscape, her stomach knotted with dread. Dread of failure, of disappointing Grams and the Cherokee nation. Would Jake and she find the crystal mask here? Anxiety riffled through her.Then she spotted the dark mouth of the cave at the far end of the box canyon. “There it is,” she murmured to Jake. “The cave.”“Yeah, I see it.”
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