Following the instructions in the latest note from Maxwell, Luci took a circuitous route to City Park and the so-called Dueling Oaks, where the exchange of aunts-for-dollars was supposed to take place. She’d studied the map long enough to know he was trying to confuse her with all the twists and turns, discounting the fact that twists and turns de-confused a Seymour. A more direct route would have left her feeling hopelessly lost.
Is there such a word as de-confused? She drove past Storyland Playland, then turned right on Victory Drive. Not in the real world, but in the Seymour Zone, no question, she decided.
There were streetlights, but not close together, so she was glad that the headlights of Delaney’s car cut two tunnels of light into a road lined with moss-draped oaks. As directed,
