Mallory hurried after her brother. “You can’t keep the mask on forever.”
“It’s not like I know the word to take it off.” Brodie grinned fleetingly. “I guess that means we have to stay here. Or at least I do.”
“There is no way I can go home without you. How would I explain that to Mum?” Mallory followed her brother through the doorway, Deneg having opened the door.
“That I ran away from home? Or I’m not going to Dad’s.”
Mallory stayed behind her brother, the corridor only wide enough to walk single file. They turned left into the next corridor, another door in front of them. “Once we finish here, we’re going to find a way to remove your mask.”
Brodie glared at his sister, but didn’t comment.
Deneg, who’d been looking through his leather bound notebook, looked up from it. “This is the
