The next available turn went the wrong way. I stomped along in back, feeling itchy. I hadn’t paid attention to how much stuff was lying around until I’d been told not to take it. Even something like a fire axe in an emergency box called to me. Maybe what bothered me was that no one was mad. We got to a room with lighted passages going off in all directions, and Patrick asked me, Maria, and Rainbow to walk down the hallways and look into the side passages while he watched to make sure we were safe. When I came back, Francis pointed in one direction and told Patrick, “That way.” “This might even work,” Patrick told us cheerfully. “We aren’t far out of the way, and now we’re headed back in the right direction. Or we will be, if we take that door over there.” So we did. It hadn’t been a big loop around after all. I glanced around at the other doors as everyone trooped into the new hallway.
