Term One - Ms Gay's Reading Challenge - Response 3

Relic

Over the past few weeks I've been reading Relic by Renee Collins, here are the main things that have happened in the story so far. I left off the story when Yahn saved Maggie and Ella from the fire (we later find out that they are the only survivors). The story picks up two weeks later, Maggie and Ella are staying at Maggie's old school. Maggie gets tired of being cooped up inside and she decided to go into the town of Burning Mesa to find a job, she runs into an important man trying to escape the clutches of a "rather nasty" man and he offers her a job at the local saloon. Soon she makes friends with Adelaide (another "worker" at the saloon) and starts falling for a rather "handsome" cowboy named Landon. Later another town gets burned down and Yahn (I said he was important later) and his "friends" get arrested for the burnings, but Maggie sets out to prove his innocence (she does this because she somehow "knows" that it wasn't him). Maggie decided to visit her hometown with Landon to find clues about the burnings. But before Maggie leaves she tells Ella what she's about to do, Ella wanted to go with them but Maggie didn't allow it. After sometime Landon and Maggie make it to their destination... the first place Maggie went to was where her house was, but there was nothing... no house, nothing. Maggie lay there on the ground thinking of all the memories she made there, and about her parents, about her brother. In the distance she heard a familiar scream, it was the sound of Ella. Maggie and Landon rush over to the screaming, Ella was on a horse surrounded by two "Rock-Devils" (Rock-Devils are modern day mythical creatures and they have acidic projectile spit). Landon whipped out his Dragon-claw riffle and his Goblin relic. Landon gives Maggie the Goblin relic (this relic makes it possible for the user to become invisible for a period of time), Landon killed one Rock-devil but there was still another. Maggie used the Goblin relic and made her way to Ella. A Rock-devil shot an acidic spit at Ella, Maggie sprinted to Ella but she wasn't fast enough... Landon shot at the Rock-devil and killed it. Maggie ran to Ella, Ella lay there unconscious on the ground... Maggie checked for a pulse, it was faint but it was still there. Read my next post to find out more.