Surrender To Us, Our Luna (One Luna, Four Alphas) novel Chapter 268

Chapter 268: 268-The Odd Ian

Clementine:

I was honestly surprised to see Oriana this calm, but at the same time, I was more shocked that she had actually found the coal. The way she had run off earlier made me worry for her safety, but at least now I felt some peace.

But we still had to find Ian, and there was no sign of him anywhere.

"Guys, it’s been two hours since we started looking for Ian. Don’t you think we should just leave now? Maybe we’ll find him on the way," Haiden suggested, placing a hand on his chest and rubbing it slightly.

I noticed all of us feeling strange. Oriana stood silently, lost in thought, but every now and then, she’d start heaving, taking deep breaths like the rest of us.

"Yeah, we should leave now," I finally said after staying quiet for a while. "Once we rest a bit, we can come back."

I only suggested that because it didn’t make sense to stay in the tunnels when we were already running out of oxygen. I had a feeling I knew why, the Earth Eaters weren’t just attacking us, they were also breathing in most of the oxygen and releasing toxic gas into the air.

"Yeah, that sounds like a good idea," Troy agreed, nodding. "Haiden, you know the way, right? Come on, lead us out of here. I can’t take it anymore."

Troy grabbed Haiden’s bicep, shaking him slightly. The urgency in his tone made me worry for him. He had been the most active one, jumping around nonstop, so I figured he was suffering the most.

"Yeah, let’s go," Haiden agreed. But even he didn’t seem fine, maybe because he’d been alone for so long.

We started following his marks. It was clever of him. He’d used the one piece of chalk the Ringleaders had given us to mark the map, and he’d used it wisely.

Because of that, he managed to guide us out in no time.

Once we were outside, we all took deep breaths. Honestly, even the cold northern air of the house felt better than whatever we’d been breathing in those tunnels.

"Guys, we still have some food, right?" Oriana asked, taking deep breaths as she knelt down, her hands resting on her knees.

"Yeah, we can take a short break, then keep looking for Ian," I said, grabbing the bags we had left behind earlier.

We didn’t want to carry too much, so we’d only taken one bag with two bottles of water and a bit of food. But we dropped it the moment we ran into the first Earth Eater, that’s how scary it got down there.

Thankfully, the rest of the bags still had food.

We sat down in the living room of the house and opened one of the bags. I noticed that the Earth Eaters didn’t seem to come out here, maybe the air outside was too pure for them. That would explain why the last one died so quickly after leaving the tunnels.

We didn’t lock the door, worried that Ian might come out and need to reach us, but we did move a closet in front of it at a slant. We figured if Ian came out, he’d be able to crawl under it or at least call out for us.

"That was so hectic," Oriana said after drinking some water and eating a few biscuits.

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