I slid as quickly and quietly as I could, and I caught up with Lu around the first bend. I tried to slow myself down, but still I crashed into him, and he let out a quick “Ow!” I was going to remind him to be quiet when we were both immediately quiet. I was listening for other voices. They seemed to have stopped, but they quickly came back. I’m sure, OK, not that sure, that the voices were more excited or elevated or at least talking about us. They were talking about what they were going to do to us. OK, so I wasn’t sure of any of that, but we did hear the voices.
My boys scrambled ahead fearlessly as if this were a video game. I hesitated as if this were my real life. Hello? It is...
It got darker, but I could still see the outlines of the cave. Right away the single tunnel turned into a maze of more...
I hurried to the end of the nothing, the end of my tunnel and screamed as loud as I could, “Li Lu!” as if...