What we saw next made even the most hardened of us jump --












The ghostly white image of a woman! She was running back and forth, screaming as though the hounds of hell were chasing her.








Rob reached out, trying to stop her, thinking to help her....

But she slipped through his fingers like mist, and disappeared.



For a moment none of us moved.
Taking a grip on her cutlass, Tails motioned us forward, pointing to a hill that had appeared with the clearing of the clouds. "Why don't we go that way? Perhaps there be someone living there."

"As long as they be living," Adri muttered.

The rest of us nodded, looking around one last time. We again moved forward, feeling slightly more edgy than before.