Jeremy
“Look Eli,” I started. I didn’t want to lecture my best friend, but I felt like he was out of touch with what was going down on this investigation. Like he wasn't taking the danger seriously.
He held up a hand to stop me. “I know, Jay, I know. But look, we’ve lost the artifact. If we stop the investigation now, then all of this work will have been for nothing. Do you really want to walk away from this empty-handed?”
“Hell no!” I shook my head. “But I do want to walk away. I don’t want to be carried out in a bag!” I felt my scalp starting to wrinkle. "I don't want to lose any friends either. You know that no amount of money is worth somebody's life, Eli."
Eli slid off the bench seat, and Mayah followed after him. With all of us standing in the camper’s little kitchen area, it was
