Chapter 122

"How much longer are they going to be?" Sandra asked as we sprinted up another dune. It had been around half an hour and we'd neared the tower, but there hadn't been any sign of fernecks.

"They will come," Zirani promised. "Even if we don't make it to the meeting point on time, they will find us."

"How can you be so sure?" Misty questioned.

"Because fernecks are not malicious creatures." she glanced back at us. "They don't lie or go out of their way to fight. It's not that they cant, but they don't understand the concept. They don't get saying one thing and then doing another."

A sad expression marred her beautiful face for a moment. "It led to problems for them in some places. It's easy to take advantage of someone who doesn't understand lying."

Her words eased my worries somewhat, but I still found myself glancing around for any sign of them, however, what alerted us to their presence wasn't any physical sign of them, but the sand shaking.