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light does odd things in here.'

She shook her head. 'I don't think so, Ch ... Father. It was watching me.'

He smiled and mussed her hair again and put his big hand on the side of her
face and hugged her head to his leg. 'Then you just stay by me and it won't
bother you.'

She sucked Sara's foot and nodded as he held her head to his leg. She didn't
feel so afraid now that his hand was on her, and so looked over to the trees
again.

The dark thing, mostly hidden by one of the vine-covered walls, darted closer.
Rachel bit down harder on Sara's foot and let out a little whimper as she
looked up at Chase. He was pointing at the boxes.

'And just what is that thing, that stone, or jewel or whatever it is? Did it
come out of the box?'

Zedd nodded. 'It did. But I don't want to say what I think it is until I'm
sure. At least not out loud.'

'Father,' Rachel whined, 'it's coming closer.'

He looked down. 'Good. You just keep your eye on it for me.' He looked back to
the wizard. 'What do you mean you don't want to say? Do you think it has
something to do with what you said about the veil to the underworld possibly
being torn?'

Zedd frowned while he rubbed his smooth chin with his skinny fingers and
looked down at the black jewel sitting in front of the open box. 'That's what
I'm afraid of.'

Rachel looked over to the wall to watch where the dark thing was. She gave a
start when she saw the hands reach over the edge of the wall. It was a lot
closer.

But they weren't hands. They were claws. Long curved claws.

She looked up at Chase, at all his weapons, just to be sure he had enough. He
had knives, a lot of knives, around his waist, a sword strapped over the back
of his shoulder, a big axe hooked to his belt, a few other things that looked
like clubs, with sharp spikes sticking out of them, hanging from his belt,
too, and a crossbow on his back. She hoped it was enough.

All the weapons scared other men, but they didn't seem to be scaring the dark
thing that was coming closer. And the wizard didn't even have a knife. He just
wore that plain, tan robe. And he was so skinny. Not big like Chase. But
wizards had magic. Maybe his magic could scare the dark thing away.