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The ceilings were shockingly high, at least twenty feet above us Three of the walls were the sahts and a couple electrical boxes The cement floor ended in a cliff, but I could see the smooth concrete wall thirty feet across froe and stared up and down, but the wall across fro and no end A few pipes jutted out fro waterfalls into the bottouessed it was clean water here, not the sewage from the tunnel

"Wow That’s an ie with me He leaned farther forward than even I did, and his foot slipped on the e I yanked him back from certain death, and he smiled sheepishly at me "Sorry"

"I’ towards the cliff He turned and adood"

In one corner, a few blankets were piled up, next to a stack of books and a few ite Peter stepped closer to inspect it, but before he even got to it, he realized what it was He looked back at Leif

"You stay here?" Peter asked hied "It’s quiet and dry here Nobody bothersus into your houess" Leif turned away froetic expression and his bare feet padded on the concrete as he went over to the edge of the cliff "It’s a nice place to hide out"

"It is nice," Peter agreed "But there are no showers or bathrooms"

"The sewer is in the tunnel," Leif nodded to the door "The river is right outside for a quick wash up, but it’s not that hard to leave if you need to do laundry or shower"

"But there aren’t any people around," I said "It’d be iet into trouble here"

"I don’t know" Peter chewed the inside of his cheekit over "But we can’t stay at hoerous This would work better than your place until we find a house that suits our needs"

"You think you can sell Mae on this?" Jack asked

"I don’t have much of a choice I need time to find somewhere even more out of the way and uninhabited than where we lived before," Peter said "That’ll take some time This will keep Daisy under wraps until then"