The Underland Chronicles: Books 1-5

Gregor grasped the sides and hung on as they shot into the darkness. What else could it be?" Calmed by the notion that he was asleep, Gregor began to gauge his fall. The ants were only a few paces from Ripred when Gregor realized he had not even drawn his sword. Banished to the Dead Land because of her remarkable sense of smell, living alone in that harsh world before she finally, desperately, had teamed up with Ripred.