Chapters 24 - 27 Summary

Dylan and Louie start out on their grim march. To get to the road they must cross eleven miles of unbroken rock. It will be dark by the time they get there. Will anybody be driving on the road? Was there even a road left. There's nothing to do but march on. They'll find out when they get there.

At first it's easy going. Low bushes, brown grass and weeds. But when they hit the first lava flow the landscape changes to solid black rock. There are two kinds of lava that they'll have to cross: smooth pahoehoe and a'a, like shattered glass. Boots can take it, but it makes hamburger out of bare feet.

When they get to the a'a the boys take off their shirts and tie them around their feet to make raglike t-shirt shoes that look like...