Part Three: Pages 450 - 478 Summary

Susana and Guy are almost at Lava Gate. Before they even hear the first shot, Guy has a bullet hit his upper arm and blood pours out. Susana hears the report of the gun and helps Guy get to the relative shelter of the mountains. Susana helps Guy get off and the horses panic, running back out into the desert where Nye shoots them. Susana takes off her t-shirt to use as a tourniquet. Nye comes after them, but Susana saves them by showing Nye the coins she found when they discovered Montdragon's final resting place. It is Nye's Achilles heel and if he kills them, he'll never find it. Susana bargains with him. She wants the unloaded rife, some water, and his horse. For that, she will give him the location he has spent months looking...