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“The apartment is the only way to the roof therefore something happened in that apartment—”
“My mouse already knows that. It is not a clue.”
Pavel groaned in annoyance.
On either side of us were doors, closed and forbidding. I noticed Pavel’s gaze sweeping over each one, his experienced eyes taking note of the smallest details.
I pointed at one door. “Can we enter these apartments?”
The little girl gazed at them. “They are all empty.”
“You all have looked in each of these?”
“Yes.”
Turning a corner, we came to a stop in front of a door different from the rest.
This one was marked with a brass number 2, worn but still gleaming faintly in the dim light of the hallway.
The little girl turned towards us, her wide eyes reflecting the dim light.
I stared at the number and then looked down at her. “In. . .real life, was your door number 2?”
She shook her head. “It was 4A.”
“Hmmm.” I put my gaze back on the number. “Amber was the first alter. You were the second. Could that be why there is a number 2 on the door?”
She chuckled. “You sound like M.”
“I very much want to meet M too—”
“No. No.” Pavel wagged his finger. “We said a clue or two and then—”
“I must also meet Emily’s alters to—”
“To what, Kazimir? To lose your mind? Or to further have your mouse lose her mind?”
“I will meet her alters, before leaving.”
The little girl shook her head. “Amber will never let you see her.”
“Why not?”
“Because you’re a man. She barely let’s M talk to her. Once, he walked inside the sewer and she urinated on herself.”
This odd sadness washed over me. “Then, I will not bother Amber.”
Granted, I wanted to meet all of them, but not if it would harm any of their minds.
“Smart.” The little girl turned around, pushed the door open, and stepped inside.
Pavel and I followed.
The space was dimly lit by the glow of the city seeping through the worn, half-drawn curtains.
A faint aroma of frying chicken lingered in the air.
The little girl flipped on the light switch.
