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.
I slid as quickly and quietly as I could, and I caught up with Lu around the first bend. I tried to slow myself...
I hurried to the end of the nothing, the end of my tunnel and screamed as loud as I could, “Li Lu!” as if...
My boys scrambled ahead fearlessly as if this were a video game. I hesitated as if this were my real life. Hello? It is...