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you must be made whole if you are going to be a hero.”
    Her fingers covered his wound for a few seconds.
    Adam felt a delicious warmth spread through his whole body.
    Then she removed her hand and his injury was healed!
    He gasped “How did you do that?”
    â€œThat is one secret I can’t tell you today.” Then she lowered her head more and whispered in his ear. “But there are others secrets you may know, Adam. I will tell you how to open the Secret Path without having to walk all over town. How to use it so that you can travel in time. Even back as far as seventy million years.”

9
    A dam materialized into a hot dark cave. Off to his right he saw a faint red glow and walked carefully toward it. He didn’t have far to go before he came to a wide underground chamber lit with bubbling pools of lava. In the center of the chamber was a group of four fat-headed aliens standing around a desk-size metal box. They seemed to have finished working and appeared to be in the midst of congratulating one another on a job well done.
    Behind them, chained to the far wall, Adam saw his friends and Bryce Poole.
    Adam wasn’t ready yet to accept Bryce as a true friend.
    Even though Ann Templeton had told him that Cindy was alive, Adam was nevertheless relieved to see her with his own eyes. But he was not happy that the fat-headed aliens had captured his friends. He figured these must be the bad aliens, and knew he had to move with caution. If he had any doubts about the latter, he had only to look at the floor in front of him where the bodies of the other aliens lay sprawled in a pile.
    Curiously enough the dead aliens still had their laser pistols in their holsters. Of course the bad aliens probably figured they didn’t need to disarm corpses. Also, the bad aliens probably believed they had rounded up all the intruding humans. Adam smiled to himself at their oversight. None of the fat heads were looking his way, so he had only to reach out. In moments he had a laser pistol in his hand.
    â€œHow do I put this thing on Stun?” Adam whispered to himself. There were clearly three settings, but he couldn’t tell the Kill setting fromthe Blow Up Everything setting. It was not as though he wanted to kill the ugly aliens. He simply wanted to free his friends and save Spooksville. But not only did he not know how to use the laser pistol, he didn’t know how to save his friends without the aliens seeing him.
    Then Adam realized that the three caves that entered the chamber must be interconnected. He decided to walk back the way he had come to see if he could swing around the aliens and come at them from the far side. Even though his friends were chained to the far wall, they were close to the largest of the cave openings.
    Adam’s, insight proved accurate. Ten minutes later he was creeping up on the chamber from the other side. The aliens were still gathered around the big metal box, chatting in scratchy voices that sounded like CD’s being played with sandpaper. His friends were only a few feet away. But there was no way Adam was emerging from the safe shadows of the cave to talk to them. He listened for a moment before speaking, and was pleased to hear Sally complaining to Bryce.
    â€œHow could you think these fat heads were here to save us from the dinosaurs?” she said.
    â€œIt seemed a logical assumption at the time,” Bryce said.
    â€œYeah. It was logical right up until they chained us to these rocks,” Sally said.
    â€œHindsight is always twenty-twenty,” Bryce said.
    â€œAnd common sense is usually right most of the time,” Sally snapped. “I tell you, if an alien is ugly he is probably evil.”
    â€œIf only Adam was here,” Cindy said with a sigh, “he would save us.”
    â€œAdam was afraid to come here,” Bryce said.
    â€œI don’t believe that,” Watch said. “Adam’s not afraid of anything.”
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