Chapter 18
I couldn’t believe our goal was going to be achieved so easily. Still, I didn’t hesitate to follow as Sam skirted around the edge of a gathering—all young people in their teens and early twenties, eating, drinking, dancing, and singing at the top of their lungs.
“The older crowd won’t be here for a couple of hours,” our guide explained as we left the tumult and began picking our way uphill through a boulder field. There was a well-trodden path here that felt strangely familiar, and as I peered upward I understood why.
This was the same rock ledge to which the cave girl had been dragged in my vision less than a day earlier...or several millennia in the past, depending on how you looked at time. We didn’t stop, however, when we came up to the spot where a bonfire had burned in
