Chapter 1: Among the ruins
Another beach, Elijah sighed, gazing out across the vast, undulating plain of a thousand liquid mirrors that came to a foamy end on the grey-white sand. They had been on Corfu for almost a week now, and on several other Greek islands before that, and in all that time, his friends had wanted to do nothing except lie on the sand, swim in the turquoise sea, and ogle the bevy of foreign beauties frolicking in the water. All Elijah wanted to do was explore. He and three of his friends booked this trip because they had all wanted to experience Greece, but once they arrived, it became painfully apparent that they had all wanted to come to Greece for reasons different from his own.