Chapter 509

I turned my attention back to Eliza, wishing I could just be done with this entire fiasco. It was sort of odd how I’d been begging to be involved and now I wanted to run away. “Sorry, Eliza. I was talking to Christian.”

“Christian? You found him? Is he okay?”

I didn’t want to be rude, so I stopped short of reminding her I could find anyone who had conscious thoughts. “Yes, I found him, and he’s okay. But Daunator has him stuck in a hole in the ground.”

“A hole? What do you mean?”

Biting back the sarcastic answer that wanted to define the word hole for her, I went another route. I could see why it might be hard to believe under the circumstances. “It’s kind of hard to describe. It’s like a really deep, dark, hole in the ground. There’s no way he can get out on his own. So he’s hoping Daunator will show up and fight him so