Earthquake-

Zil's gang still looked angry, but Sam sent them off. 'You didn't want to get on the wrong side of them, you've got a price on your head now…' Sam sounded serious. Shaun jerked his tail out of the little kid's reach.

'You better come inside' Astrid dragged the little blonde after her.

Perdido Beach townhall, not so townhall-ish now there were only kids to run it. Within the building there was a room with lots of chairs and a full wall window through which Caitlin could see the distorted sun slowly making its way to night fall filling the chairs there were a dozen kids that stopped talking as they came in. Everyone was looking at Caitlin, or the ferret on her shoulder.

There was a Mexican dude, a surfer boy that smelled like fish, a dark skinned girl, a short pale girl with dark hair that couldn't seem to sit still, a stocky boy that looked like he should be playing computer games or doing other people's homework, a boy that looked to be the bully type and Albert? 'Caitlin?' Albert stood up and she dived at him 'what are you doing here?' she released her strangle hold on him.

'You know each other?' Astrid questioned. 'This is Caitlin! She used to be my next door neighbour! Then her parents split and she went to back to Ireland with her dad,' he looked at her, 'You only used to come up to see you're mum every so often- I hardly ever saw you, what are you doing here?' he looked at Shaun, 'Why have you got a ferret?'

'I- Err… I'm- Umm… this is Shaun?' why the fudge was she asking him? 'This is Shaun, my dad got him for me, umm, and lots of Irish people have ferrets' she lied. It wasn't that believing. 'I was on holiday here, visiting mum and I was up in Trotters Ridge, hiking with a friend, I saw the barrier thing go up, I was very nearly on the other side like my friend' she rushed.

'Right…' the fishy boy muttered. Caitlin glared at him. 'Okay, Caitlin needs somewhere to stay… Albert?' Astrid asked. 'Yes, she can stay at my house, of cause she can!' Sam spoke to the room, 'It's getting late, we'll talk tomorrow, okay-'

Suddenly the room shook violently; the whole town hall started vibrating. The skinny pale girl was suddenly by the door, yelling 'It's the whole street, the whole town is shaking!' to Sam. Shaun curled around Caitlin's neck. 'Everything is shaking!' Astrid started yelling, 'Everyone outside now!'

Caitlin was last out, Shaun dropped to the floor. Kids were flowing out of the Day care, out of everywhere. The shaking stopped, 'What the hell was that?' she shouted. Astrid spoke calmly, 'It must have been an earthquake…'

'Weird' Sam whispered beside her. 'I'm guessing this doesn't happen much,' she asked Astrid. 'It shouldn't, doesn't, at all. It's not logical; there isn't anything to suggest we should be getting earthquakes, not in the FAYZ.' Sam looked at Astrid, 'What should we do?' Astrid shrugged, 'go home and look out for aftershocks?' the great Astrid didn't really know what to do, ha.

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