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“Which panel was it?” Chris asks as he drags a chair over

“This one,” I say, pointing to the spot in the ceiling that Future-Adaes the panel loose He peeks his head inside and then turns back to us “Looks good Zoe, you ready?”

She’s biting her nails again, staring up at the dark space over Chris’s head “I guess”

“You can do this,” I say

Adaht here if anything happens”

“Okay” She looks up at the ceiling and then takes a deep breath “Ready”

She climbs onto the chair with Chris, and he lifts her into the crawl space in the ceiling Her neon-green kneepads flash as she pulls her legs inside, and then she vanishes in the darkness There’s a long bout of coughing, but then I see a bright beaain “Ugh, it’s really nasty up here”

“You won’t be up there long,” Chris says, hopping off the chair

“You knohere to go?” I ask Zoe

She waves the map she and I made in her sketchbook “Got it I’ll let you knohen I’m over the lab”

After she takes off, Adaain, and then Chris heads to the door “All right, let’s go”

He and Trent step outside, but I turn back to Adam “Will you be okay here?”