DANTE There was no telling where the bodies had come from or how the people had gotten into the tunnels in the first place, but luckily demons didn’t eat clothes. Dante had long outgrown his old clothes by many inches, and he found no shame in taking a pair of pants, a shirt, or some shoes from any dead person they passed along the way. The demons had forced Mr. Zhora and the seven surviving boys to walk through long, round tunnels cut through solid rock. The tunnels tended to be straight and seemingly endless. From what Dante had learned about demons, he didn’t think they had built the tunnels themselves, though he couldn’t imagine who had. Demons seemed lazy, unless it came to walking, fighting, and eating. They never slept, which made escape next to impossible, and if they had an even

