Chapter 10:
The shine from the brilliant white desert sands below was replaced by the reflection from the deep blue of the Arabian Sea. Helena never left her cabin except to tend to her aunt. Each night Gertrude and Phoebe would make her return to her cabin for a few hours. The Germans didn’t attack, and her aunt didn’t pass on. Helena knew there were bigger concerns, but she needed to focus on the quickly advancing problems. Too many things happened at once.
The visions that Ezra showed Helena haunted her waking thoughts and caused intense nightmares. Not only did his images replay in her mind, she created her own, seeing people and places she loved being torn to shreds by the metal monsters that sprung from the ground. Boundless waves of fire crashed over the landscape, wiping the moun
