As they got close, I took a firmer hold over them and moved them directly to us. The papers crumpled as my hands closed around them. Four or five pages.
I couldn’t be sure two might have been stuck together.
Not too much, but far better than nothing.
“We need an exit,” I said, as I hopped down from the wall. I handed Lisa the papers.
Yeah, before Faultline comes after you. I highly doubt she wasn’t paying close attention to where the papers were headed.
Lisa nodded, “I’ve been thinking on that. Look.”
She pointed at one corner of the mall. It looked like any other section, heavily altered by Labyrinth’s powers. The shops had been almost entirely consumed by Labyrinth’s powers, and were further shrouded by the floor-to-ceiling statues of human figures that stuck out of the walls.
So did you find a hole in the Matrix?
In the corner Lisa was pointing at, there were male and female figures, expressions solemn, hands reaching, moving so slowly I might have thought it was my imagination. The shop below was nearly gone, the entrance nearly covered up.
Hm. But not completely… is that the ticket out?
“Not seeing it,” I said.
“Look at how they’re standing. The male figure is sticking out of the left wall, reaching with his right hand, the female figure is doing the opposite.
Seems riddle-y… Is it a requirement of Labyrinth’s power that she provides some way out? Or maybe it’s for Faultline and anyone else on Labyrinth’s side who need to get out but are under the power’s effect.
Look past them, at the corner.”
I did. Between the figures was the point where the two exterior walls of the shopping center joined… nothing jumped out at me. The walls were bare.
Hm. Maybe that’s the point.
“I don’t see it,” I repeated, as she tugged on my arm and started running forward. As a group we started moving toward the corner. “What am I looking for?”
Maybe it’s more what isn’t there, namely wall decorations.
“Nothing! There’s nothing there because her power isn’t extending to that corner. She’s too far away, on the roof at the other side of the mall. Which means the interior of that shop isn’t affected by her power!”
Nice! I got the pieces right, just didn’t think to put them together.
So are you gambling on the shop having a back door or emergency exit?
To be fair, Lisa is very good at gambling.
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