"Wait for me!" I call after my sister and my cousin. I simply can't keep up at this pace. The shorter one practically glows, skinny and freckled, her orange hair shimmering in the sunlight.

        Laughing, she turns around, grabbing Delphi by the arm to slow her down. The redhead walks towards me quickly, a little hyper from adrenaline, and it's hard not to notice how green the leaves look behind her hair. Huffing, I open my mouth to apologize, but she interrupts.

        "Wouldn't it be amazing if we were as tiny as the ants in the ground?"

        I stop, pushing my increasingly boring dark hair out of my eyes, tangled from the wind. I'd never thought of it before. Besides, her statement is not related to anything right now, and I feel confused.

        "Or maybe we could be so big that our foot would be the size of the whole schoo-!"

        "Are you sure you want to go this far? It seems to be a bad idea," I begin, starting to feel nervous for the first time during this ordeal.

        "Well, the way I see it, we will be Abandoned if we do it when we are older. We will be in huge trouble if we do it now. And if we do it now, we can know what is really out there."

         I look to Delphi, seeking another opinion. She nods her head, knowing sound logic when she hears it.

        "We should probably keep running, though. They will know we are gone soon. It's now or never," my sister says urgently.

        "I agree," Ash says. "We didn't come here for nothing."

        And so then I'm sprinting, too, a little behind Delphi and Ash, but keeping up. Because they are right. The time is now.

        Soon, we reach the bottom of a steep rise in the land, probably the only place that will work. Rocky and sharp, it takes time to reach the top. We use small trees growing on the side to lift ourselves up.

        It's Ash who reaches the summit first. She gasps as my sister and I follow behind her, desperate to see what she sees.

        The top of the wall is about three feet below us. And beyond it, as far as we can see, the world is grey. A great expanse of white sediment lies below, seemingly miles away. The sky is smoky, the world tortured and alone.

        "Remember how I was imagining being either a giant or an ant?" Ash asks no one in particular, detached from reality.

        "Yes," Delphi replies for me, because the words won't come.

        "Right now, I am both the giant and the ant. And it is terrifying."