Penny’s next few days consisted of eating, sleeping, and meditating, though her efforts only resulted in two more brief visions of what she could only credit as the world above through Rocky’s eyes. The second had been very worrying.
The little gray man was thoroughly lost. Wandering through another of what Torin called the Servant Tunnels, designed as shortcuts through the citadel for the use of the house homunculi, Rocky had hit the end of one tunnel without realizing it, running face-first into a hanging tapestry in someone’s personal chamber. Penny had seen only a glimpse of the person in the room before her connection with Rocky broke. It was Tracy West, and Penny did not know if he had slipped back into the service tunnels unnoticed or been discovered.
She thought she might have dr
