Chapter 45
Rolf in the lead, they threaded their way through the rooms and corridors beneath the seating. Before, when they’d climbed the seemingly endless stairs and descended down to the arena floor. It had taken them something over four hours. But the return, working their way like rats through a flat maze, should - Rolf suggested - take less than thirty minutes.
Often, the lights failed, and there would be the whirr of a hand-held torch being powered up and always, there was the scurrying of rats and other rodents getting out of the way.
The mood of the group had unquestionably changed. It had never been particularly cheerful, but Smitty and Smurf had added a subversive, almost frivolous quality that was hard to pin down but indubitably there. But now, both Tavia and Spiker, heads d
