Chapter 17
AliceHeavy footsteps pounded on the flooring grates above her. Alice kept her face tucked down, in case they could see her in the passage. No one gave any indication that they saw her. From the sound of fighting and gunfire, they were busy.
She counted the junctures, taking the right branching path. He said right. She felt confident about that.
Continuing on, the noise overhead diminished. All she could hear was her own hyperventilating. She didn’t like tight spaces. She had this recurring dream of trying to get into her attic crawl space, but the hatch kept getting smaller and smaller, a la Alice in Wonderland. Yeah, she didn’t need to analyze that nightmare too hard.
Fortunately, Faris was truthful about the passage being wide enough to accommodate her. In one spot, she go
