CHAPTER TWELVE
Treehugger hated being underground. She absolutely despised it. She preferred to be on the surface, where the sun was. She always felt better under the sun than in the darkness beneath the earth.
She especially didn’t like the tunnel that she, Sparky, Blizzard, and Shell were running in. Yes, they were safer down here than they were back up on the surface where the Servants of the Starborn were, but that did not mean that Treehugger liked this place very much. The carvings on the walls appeared to depict the Servants performing all sorts of gruesome tortures on prisoners from the past, including one that would probably be stuck in Treehugger’s nightmares forever. It was also cold down here, much colder than the surface, and there were strange tree roots running along the r
