The trees. Ishida had said he couldn’t put sensors in the trees, because of the branches that moved. But even so—how did he do it? I started to feel suffocated. I realized my hands were shaking again, and I hugged Sasha tighter to stop it.
“That’s not possible! What skylight?” Ishida blurted out, and he sounded completely baffled, as if he couldn’t believe it. I think we were all the same. “I secured the basement gates from the outside, but I didn’t see any skylight. Where is it?”
“Sealed under half a meter of ice and snow. You can’t see it from outside,” Richie snapped.
Alexander shut the basement door and stayed there for a moment, staring at the wallpaper pattern that disguised it, furious. I suppose he was trying to calm down before saying anything else, because his mood poured out
