Chapter 27
Newton’s house was soon far behind them, a tiny point among the stars. Walking silently and side-by-side, Maya was wondering what Newton could have got wrong, or whether he only said that to comfort her. Ben’s head, meanwhile, echoed with his father’s words: “I’d love it if you’d come and visit me”. Surely, his mother would let him go to the States for a few weeks in the summer break. Greg would be working anyway, so they’d only be able to go on vacation together in August. Ben found it odd that he no longer felt the usual tightening in his stomach when he thought of Greg.
“So, here you are!” Socrates was floating above them.
“We’ve passed the tests, so now what?”
Socrates waved his hand and a narrow stairway emerged from the fog. It led steeply upwards, but it was impossibl
