Free Into the Storm by Tim Lahaye, Jerry B. Jenkins

didn’t ask questions.”
    “Where are we going?” Ryan said.
    “We have to get you to safety,” Buck said.
    “The GChave both Mrs. Stahley and Taylor Graham in custody.”
    Ryan gave a low whistle.
    “We must have been wrong about Graham,” he said.
    As they drove, Ryan asked Buck questions about the adult Tribulation Force. Rayford Steele was preparing to return to New Babylon Amanda, his wife, was staying to help Chloe with the materials Bruce left behind. Tsion Ben-Judah was in hiding, though Buck didn’t say where, and Buck was working on a Global Community Weekly article.
    “What’s it about?” Ryan said.
    “I’m taking Bruce’s message and turning it into a cover story,” Buck said.
    “I’ve assigned reporters from offices in several countries to interview different religious leaders.
    I’ll include their answers in my article. “
    “What are the questions?” Darrion said.
    “Just one,” Buck said.

    “Will we suffer the ‘wrath of the Lamb’?”
    “Wow,” Ryan said.
    “Has anybody been assigned to talk with that Enigma Babylon, guy?”
    “Peter Mathews?” Buck said.
    “I did that myself. He thinks the book of Revelation is just literature. He says the earthquake is symbolic and that if God exists at all, he or she is a spirit or an idea. “
    “Sounds like what I used to believe,” Darrion said.
    Buck pulled up to a stoplight inMount Prospect.
    “The only question is,where do I take you?” Buck said.
    Ryan smiled. He knew a place where no one would find them.
    Vicki sat through the geology lecture, wondering if she would get another chance to talk with the girls she met in the assembly. She was thinking of the Underground and what the next issue would contain when she heard her teacher say something about an earthquake.
    “I have a friend who attended a funeral the other day,” the teacher said, “where someone brought up the idea of a worldwide earthquake.” The teacher laughed, and several students snickered as well.
    “People who buy into religion put their minds on the shelf,” the teacher continued.
    “There has never been norwill there ever be a global earthquake.”
    The teacher drew a diagram on the chalkboard.
    “We’ve talked about this before.
    Earthquakes are caused by faults. These underground plates rub against each other. But tell me, if this one smacks against this one, do you think there will be an earthquake over here? “
    “No,” the class responded.
    “Of course not,” the teacher said.
    “It’s not logical. If you believe there’s going to be a worldwide earthquake, you probably believe in a global flood and that a man and his three sons saved all the animals in a boat.”
    While the others laughed, Vicki took notes.
    Lionel sat in the dark van, his stomach growling. He hadn’t eaten since the night before. When the driver stopped for gas, he yelled, “Nobody talks!” Both the driver and the other man got out.
    Lionel knocked on the window and asked, “When are we gonna get something to eat?”

    The driver stuck his head in the door and cursed.
    “I said nobody talks!” he screamed.
    “Better keep your mouth shut,” a boy behind Lionel whispered when the man was gone.
    “He’ll probably give us something before too long.”
    Lionel introduced himself.
    “I’m Jake,” the other boy said.
    “Where are you from?” Lionel asked.
    “Detroit. They got me yesterday.”
    “Where’s he taking us?” Lionel said.
    “Someplace down South,” Jake said.
    “We don’t know for sure, but somebody heard the guy mentionAlabama.”
    Lionel shook his head.
    “They told me there were family members looking for me,” he said.
    “I thought the man who took me was a friend of my mom’s.”
    “That happened to a couple others in here,” Jake said.
    “They grabbed me right off the street.”
    “Your family will come for you, won’t they?” Lionel said.
    “Don’t have family,” Jake said. Lionel felt sorry for him but didn’t know what