“Where are you two coming from at this time of the night?”

A significant pause followed.

“Or rather, where have you two been since morning?” Peter asked immediately after Diana and I stepped into the compound. It turned out he had been waiting by the wooden gates.

At first, Diana and I exchanged glances, both of us wondering if it was a good idea to talk about the cave and how it had deceived us.

Rachel should have told us that the cave had a slower time clock before getting us in there!

Diana laughed and shook her head, as though she could see what was going on in my...