Chapter 23
The apartments were just coming to life, though no one was actually outside when Thomas and his friends ran into the courtyard. Voices carried past them from each floor as the five climbed the stairs and stumbled into the apartment. Henry pulled the balcony doors shut and put on the latch. Thomas was ready to collapse on the spot, and from the look of his friends, so were they.
“I do not,” Benjamin gasped, “believe we got out of there.”
“Neither do I,” agreed Thomas. “I thought we were dead.”
“I think your friend may be,” said Henry, pointing.
George was sitting on the floor, head in his hands. Eileen knelt beside him. “Are you all right?”
George shook his head. Thomas came over. “Anything we can do?”
One of George’s big hands reached out, wrapped itself into Thomas’s shi
