Chapter 20Juniper hadn’t been kidding about the narrowness of the vents. Montreal had thought he was going to be stuck more than once. In a way, I’m sorry I didn’t allow Aaron to do this. He’d have no trouble squirming around these narrow bends.
Finally, the space was big enough to crawl and Montreal gave a sigh of relief.
“Not long now,” Juniper called over his shoulder. “I just need to make sure we come out far enough away from the main part of the city. No one would look twice at me, but you’re a different matter altogether.”
“You’ve certainly given this a lot of thought,” Montreal replied.
“Each generation has made plans of their own that contributed. As you saw from the stitchwork, we’ve been planning this from the day the founder left us.”
“What do you know of that?” Montreal as
