"Okay, it's been twenty minutes Adam, can we go look for them now?" Shalimar stopped the pacing she had taken up ten minutes before.
"Yes, Now I am starting to worry too. Did you try their com rings?" Adam asked standing up. Shalimar tried to contact both Ben and Kailey but had no success.
"Okay they headed in the direction of the woods, probably to walk the nature trail. Shalimar and Brennan, you two come with me to follow the trail and see if it leads us to them and Jesse, you and Emma fly the double helix over head in stealth mode and see if you see anything from up there." Adam directed and pointed his finger to the sky. Everyone headed out. Adam, Shalimar and Brennan hurried down the path in the direction the kids had taken and after walking a good distance they came upon a clearing that over looked the ocean, the same one that Ben had found Kailey at. As they neared it Shalimar caught a whiff of Kailey's sent and stopped walking.
"They were here." Shalimar said as she smelled the air trying to figure out which direction the two had gone.
"Can you tell how long ago?" Adam asked as Brennan looked on curiously.
"The sent is pretty weak, I say an hour ago maybe longer. I knew we should have come after them sooner."
"Don't get too worked up yet, they may have stopped to enjoy the view and then kept going." Brennan said trying to reassure her but deep down he didn't believe his own words. Shalimar was still concentrating on the direction that the sent led.
"I think they went this way." Shalimar said as she headed deeper into the woods with Adam and Brennan close behind.
"Are you sure? It's not like them to leave the path?" Brennan asked.
"Trust me they definitely came this way, I am picking up on both their scents." Just as Shalimar said that, the wind picked up and carried both Ben and Kailey's scent with it, the group had to stop.
"Damn it!" Shalimar growled. "I've lost the scent." Her eyes turned feral as she tried to look for any visual signs of where they went but came up empty. When the trio had thought the trail had gone cold Emma's voice floated over their coms.
"You guys, Jesse and I spotted what looks like an old well not far from where you are now, it could be that Kailey and Ben fell down there when they were walking."
"Good work Emma." Adam praised.
"What are the coordinates?" Brennan asked as he put his watch in compass mode.
"Um, 15 degrees north, 2 degrees west of your location," Emma answered. Just then Jesse's voice took the place of Emma's.
"Yeah Adam, I think we might have a problem, I've been using the Helix's computer systems to estimate the depth of the well and it's pretty deep, if they really are down there I don't think we have the equipment to get them." Adam furrowed his brow and Brennan and Shalimar looked concerned.
"We'll have to deal with that when we get there and see if that is in fact where they are. You too park the Helix and meet us at the well got it?"
"Sure then Adam," Jesse responded.
"We'd better hurry, if this well is as deep as Jesse said, they could be seriously hurt." Shalimar said and the three headed off in the direction that the coordinates led.
