Xyla Quest laughed. “No, there were dangerous booby traps, but I was lucky enough to dodge all of them.”
She sounded very calm, but the people who heard her weren’t calm at all.
Everyone felt immensely terrified in retrospect.
What? There was danger? And booby traps?
How could she effortlessly evade all of them and resurface completely unharmed, despite knowing nothing about the situation down there?
Frederick Shaw found Xyla even more baffling now. “What kind of traps were there, my young