CHAPTER THIRTEEN
A short while later, they reached the Temple. Treehugger originally thought that the Midnight Menace was referring to the temple whose courtyard she had landed in, but when she mentioned that to him, the Midnight Menace shook his head and mentioned something about how he was not supposed to go there and that she was lucky that she didn’t get killed. Not that he would elaborate; every time Treehugger tried to get him to explain why he avoided that place, he would ignore her question. The only elaboration he gave was that that particular temple was a place of evil and death and that it always ‘consumed’ whoever visited it. He also would not tell her what the creature in the tree trunk was; he actually seemed frightened when she mentioned it and told her to forget all about
