I estimated that the cave mouth was about twenty feet away from us, which would have taken only a couple of seconds of walking to reach under normal circumstances. But because Lucius and I had to walk together underneath my jacket, our progress was much slower, turning what should have been a second or two of quick walking into a couple of minutes of slow walking. Luckily, the ground wasn’t very rocky or uneven, but we still had to watch out feet carefully to make sure that we didn’t step outside of the jacket and expose ourselves to the sun accidentally.
The two of us didn’t say much as we walked, mostly because we were too busy trying to keep pace with each other to risk speaking and distracting each other. Still, I took advantage of our closeness to enjoy Lucius’ presence. He was bigge
