CHAPTER 14After a few steps, Fredericka allowed herself to look up from the magic circle of light moving ahead of her. The sky was overcast now and the stars that she had watched so happily from Thane’s living room window, had disappeared. How long ago that seemed; and how normal and sane and infinitely remote from this world of madness and delirium.
Philippine spoke from just behind her. “Can you see now? Is it all right if I hold the flashlight like this?” she asked.
“Yes. Yes. It’s fine. The path’s easy to follow if you keep the light just as it is.”
“Good. I will then. And I follow you.”
They moved slowly forward in their private pinpoint of light. It seemed to intensify the darkness that walled them in. There was no escape, Fredericka thought wildly, fighting back a feeling of pan
