Chapter 160

**Lyra

Rain pounded outside the cave and pooled underneath me, soaking my feet and bottom. I shivered, but there was no getting away from it. The cave was too small to stand up in.

I wondered where Zelda had gone, how long she would be away, and, as the water rose to my ankles, then hips, if I was going to drown in here.

Suddenly, the stones peeled away again, and Zelda stuck her wet head in the c