“Here,” he had the nerve to say. “Give me your hand.” Now it was my turn to scowl. “I. Don’t. Need. Your. Help!” I focused my strength and pulled myself up until my foot found another cabinet to boost up on. Once it was secure, I kept climbing the tower and ignored Daniel until we reached its summit.
The walls around us had grown a lot in our absence. And even though we were as high as we could go, the doors on the other side of the room were no longer far below us. They were now exactly at eye level, yet still a good hundred-foot dash ahead.
SJ, Blue, and Jason, on the other hand, had just reached them. They stopped short at that point, for it seemed only then had they noticed that Daniel and I were missing from the group. When they looked back for us I waved them to continue forward as
