Chapter 346: Hope Offered
“You want us to do what?” Stacy asked. “Touch you?”
Nodding, Max focused on the group of men he had stacked on top of each other, each of them face down, chest to back, hands and feet still immobilized by their stone bindings.
“I’m going to straddle them, and then I just need everyone to touch me somewhere. This should work.”
“Dear Ockrim, I’m too pretty to die,” Fowl muttered as he watched Max climb on top of the older man’s back and stretch his legs as far as possible to touch them all.
“Okay, now you all touch me. Sooner we do this, the sooner we can get home and enjoy some time away from all the prying eyes.”
Everyone moved quickly, anxious not to have to worry about the townspeople, who were gathered around corners or peeking out of windows at what Max had been doing the last ten minutes.
Once he was certain everyone was touching him, he gave a small prayer that everything would work like Bob had promised.
[ Planetary Travel - Waypoints ]
A purple portal washed over all of them, stretching to fit everyone, and one moment they were in the center of town at the stone steps, the next they were about twenty yards from the house in a section of the overgrown yard.