WHOEVER CHOOSES TO ENTER WILL TAP INTO AN UNIMAGINABLE POWER

As Marcus sits on the porch and ponders the meaning of the satyr and everything else that had just happened, he slowly becomes aware of the thoughts of his family in the house. First he hears the inner monologue of Anthony - then his consciousness expands farther and he becomes aware of his parents as they are embroiled in an argument. This is the last straw and he snaps, throwing his phone into the tall grass and running off to a private place he has been going to since he was a young boy when he needs some place to decompress. He regrets throwing his phone. What is happening to me? He wonders. He feels strange. He doesn't feel like himself. Who am I? He wonders.

Cut to the Sorros house where an expedition is being outfitted with spelunking gear. George Sorros is grilling his daughter and she sticks to the same story, repeating the events of Chapter 1 as she experienced them. Mr. Sorros is growing more and more imaginative as he describes what he is going to do to the entire Stavreau family but ESPECIALLY that little shit Marcus.

Zoe leads her father's men into the cave to the drop off. After setting up climbing ropes two men rappel down and find Marcus' dead body at the bottom of the drop off. He appears to have been dead for at least a day. They find Zoe's phone a few feet away from Marcus. A confused Zoe asks if they see a stanchion. Yes, they hold one up and point their lights at several more. You know they used to bill this cave as a tourist attraction, right? One of her father's men yells up. The other sweeps his light across the gypsum crystals that cover the cavern wall, cauliflower formations and dense clusters of needles. No bones, no passage to a metal door. Broken neck, yells one of the men as he prods at Marcus with his foot. Even from this distance Zoe can see the unnatural angle that Marcus' head is facing.

Marcus' dead body is transported to the Sorros home. Zoe is beyond confused at this point and has dissolved into rage. Not having anyone else to direct it at she explodes at her father when she realizes he is not planning to return the body to the Stavreaus nor inform the authorities. Her father coldly sends her to her room as he calls his lawyer. Zoe climbs out the window and runs off into the night.

End chapter 3.