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It was not long before they arrived in Tijuana, and searched everywhere. They searched high and low, in the resorts and in the slums; they prayed; Lilianne said glumly, "We're looking for a needle in a haystack." After a week of searching, Jaben said, "This city is too noisy. I need to go out into the countryside to think."
The friends drove aimlessly, and pulled over for a lunch of MREs. Each person grabbed one, and they sat down on the edge of a cornfield.
"So what do we do now?" Sarah asked.
"I don't know," Thaddeus said. "I felt positive that the Spirit was pulling us to Tijuana."
"At least we tried to be faithful," Ellamae said.
Jaben pulled out the Windows CD-ROM, placed it on the tip of his index finger, and ran his thumb along the edge. "I wonder. I think--"
"Why is the ground trembling?" Sarah asked.
The friends dropped their food and staggered to their feet.
There, not fifty feet away, molten rock was spewing into the air. A chunk landed ten feet away.
The heat was incredible.
Jaben hurled the annulus into the lava, where it disappeared in a burst of lambent flame. "Let's run!"
They did run, and this time Thaddeus's driving was estimated to be about a 9.5 on the Richter scale. They drove and drove, and after a time realized they were lost.
"We're approaching a small village," Lilianne said. "Maybe they'll be able to tell us where we are, or how to get to the nearest city."
"We'd better not," said Jaben.
"Men! Always refusing to ask directions," Sarah said.
"It's not that, Sarah. You know I ask directions at home," Jaben said.
"Which is why you should do it here, too," Sarah said, crossing her arms and nodding her head.
"It's standard procedure in Mexico, if you don't know where something is, to make up directions. They could give us driving directions to Brazil," Jaben said.
"They could hardly leave us more lost than we are now," Lilianne said.
Jaben said, "Slow down. I want to get out."
Thaddeus stopped the van.
Jaben got out, and walked to the doorway of the nearest hovel. "Por favor," he asked, "disez cómo encontrar--"
"Jaben?" a faint voice queried from the darkness within.
"Amos!"
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