24 It could be my ticket out. I could storm out of this room right now, ask Lyman to arrange for the ferry, ask him to find Halli’s parents’ pilot, too, so I can fly back home tonight. My priority is finding Halli, not fighting with her parents over whatever it is they want to do with their stupid company. But flying back to Halli’s house won’t really get me where I need to be. There’s nothing there for me right now except solitude and space to think. And a day ago, I would have thought both of those were the most precious things in the world. But now I know differently. Because I’m not ready to think yet—not without more facts. This is a physics problem, and you can’t solve those with only part of the information. I need to understand the whole picture. And for that I need more fact