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The same way Agatha and the other Prizes hadn’t.
Jixa came to a decision.
“Follow me.”
Her friend looked on helplessly, holding the tray in her hands as she watched us head down a hallway just off the main entrance.
I held the rifle close to my chest and followed Jixa as she rushed through the hallways.
There were so many doors that fed into other corridors that there was no way I could have found Agatha without her help.
The longer we traveled, the more scared I grew that I might be too late.
I tried to memorize the twists and turns we made but after a while, they mixed into a heady daze.
We would have to find another way to get out or else ask Jixa to help us.
Then again, heading back the way we had come wasn’t the best idea when Draw’s guards were out there waiting for me.
“How much further is it?” I said to Jixa.
“Only a little. Just up here.”
I kept a close eye on our backs and the hallways we’d already traversed.
I didn’t want the guards crawling up our ass.
Finally, Jixa came to a stop outside a door a plush walnut color and polished to a high shine.
“In here?” I said.
Jixa nodded and backed away from the door.
I reached for the handle, causing Jixa to whimper and turn away.
“Wait,” I said.
“I’m sorry,” she said. “I can’t.”
“How are we supposed to get out of here?”
She had no answer for me as she turned and ran back the way we’d come.
I pressed the handle and shoved the door open with a firm shunt.
The door swung open and didn’t emit so much as a squeak.
I peered inside and eyed the room beyond carefully.
It was dark but there was light from a single source.
Daylight, I thought.
It streamed through a long series of windows along the back wall.
More light could have gotten through if it wasn’t for the fact they’d been greyed out, giving the room a tint the color of a turgid nightmare in the dead of winter.
I moved behind a set of blinds and listened carefully.
