Nothing happened.
Emily looked with tear-filled eyes at Palustric, who clenched his fists and shook his head. Still, nothing happened. Palustric stamped his foot angrily. He didn’t want to believe that his friend had been through that torture for nothing. Even Lar was losing faith, when suddenly with a crash, a great crack speared across the side of the rock like a fork of lightning.
Instantly, the rock was hidden in a cloud of fine white dust. It filled the air around them and then began to settle like snow on the ground. Where the rock had been, lay the boy—like a dragon on its treasure hoard. Except that the boy looked more like a mummy because white dust covered him from head to toe.
When he opened his eyes, Adam could see wisps of cloud whirling around the sky. Suddenly, much close
