Chapter 33
Benjie’s words had power. I could feel them, lying there in my stomach. But, for now, it was time to return to the physical world.
“Where are we?” I asked Sam as he directed me to park at the end of a gravel driveway. There was nothing visible around us. Just trees, trees, and more trees.
“I thought the first step might be trapping the hellhounds,” he answered. A creased map emerged from his pocket—a network of lines and bumpy ovals. “The obvious location is inside the cave.”
So he had a map and a way to drive closer to the entrance. Helpful. Still, the fiery wolves had gotten out once already. And—“I don’t think they’ll go down an elevator.”
“There are two ways in,” Sam said, having clearly thought the matter through already. He twisted the map around so I could see it bet
