“Or some sort of elaborate trap.”
“Maybe. But I think we should take the risk. We need all the help we can get.” She looked at directly at him, although she couldn"t see his face. “Are you coming?”
He sighed in an exaggerated way. “Yes. I"m coming.”
The light moved at a quick walking pace. They had to hurry to stay near as it disappeared behind the boughs of trees ahead.
It soon led them out of the woods. They stood at the edge of an empty stretch of land, the ground ahead a great expanse of darkness. Some way off, civilisation started again, street-lights and houses twinkling in the twilight. Tower-blocks and factories, too, all lit up so they resembled patchworks of square lights rather than anything solid.
The werelight bobbed on without stopping, cutting across the waste ground, h
