CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Luckily for us, we did not run into Phaser or any of Longworth’s other beasts. Indeed, the tunnels were eerily quiet, although every now and then we would hear the patter of mice as they darted across the floor in the darkness.
This gave both of us a lot of time to think. I wish it didn’t, because I didn’t want to think about our odds now. Stuck down in this seemingly endless maze, full of monsters that liked to eat human flesh, with a crazed ex-superhero who nearly killed us and would probably try to kill us again sometime soon, missing one of our own already, no communication to the outside world … it all contributed to feeling like a rat in a cage.
“I don’t get it,” said Triplet aloud, speaking for the first time in several minutes.
Snapped out of my thoughts, I lo
