Literature
Sparks in the Dark -- Chapter 24
Of course, Victim and the others new absolutely nothing about Lucas’s peril. They were busy doing as they were told – at least Mahavra and John were. Already they were pretty small in the distance, their forms starting to mesh with the horizon line. And Lucas had vanished of course, the little spark shooter probably dashing off on some harebrained adventure that would get them all killed.
Victim, only Victim, the only voice of reason among this bunch of idiots, sat on the bank watching the river and waiting for one half or the other of the group to return. Eventually one of them would find a crossing point, and then he’d run