Chapter 34. Chaos, Back There

“Thank you Ma’am…” Stella turned to wave their angel goodbye as soon as they saw the base camp and one teacher waiting with a few more students. But the moment they turned their heads, she was gone, with no trace. They looked at each other but the joy of being saved was too great. They ran to meet the others as the teacher checked on them.

One by one students and teachers kept coming out. Some individually limping and bleeding, perhaps from steep falls or slides, and some came out soaked and muddy, hurdled in mini groups.

It was almost night so they immediately started a head count before trekking back to the ground, where the buses were.

“Kian… Kian is missing… I couldn’t find him…”

Betty had come out of the forest with the earliest groups but she had gone back again to look for Kian. She was the last one to come out again when the head count started and crashing on the ground, yelling with her hands up.

“Mira is missing as well…” Razzak came forward w