Chicken that I am, I felt safer with the four of us together even if I was the only adult and my companions were small boys who were more concerned about farting than getting out of here alive, and a small dog who looked like Toto and would protect us perhaps from a rat, but not much else. It was time to move.
                        
                    “Pepper!” we cried one by one. “Pepper! Treat! Treat!” But there was nothing, no one and eerily not a sound around.
                        
                    “I heard it here!” Li shouted. “Me, too!” Lu said excitedly. “I did, too!” I said quickly. “But it came through my tunnel,” I...
                        
                    I hurried to the end of the nothing, the end of my tunnel and screamed as loud as I could, “Li Lu!” as if...