Chapter Fourteen — *Ahead Of Us*
"Nobody panic," Pip said.
Everyone looked at him.
"I am just saying. As a general suggestion. Nobody panic."
"Nobody was panicking," Zane said.
"You looked like you were about to panic."
"I was not panicking. That is my normal face."
"Your normal face looks like that?"
"Pip." Soren's voice was flat. "Please stop talking."
Pip stopped talking.
Caius crouched down and looked at the footprints.
Three sets. Maybe four. Overlapping in places. Going in the same direction they were walking. The dust around them was barely disturbed which meant recently. Very recently.
He stood up.
"How far to the next split," he said to Vera.
"Twenty minutes."
"And they are taking the left passage like us."
"If they know where they are going yes."
"Do they know wh
