He stood up, wondering what Claire was doing here so late. She brought the lights up and he got a good look at her. "Ohhh my, what's all this?" he ask...ed.Claire was dressed in an elaborate costume. A pair of furry clip-on cat ears, black with pink inside, were in her hair. Contact lenses gave her yellow irises with faux vertically slit pupils. Thin black lines representing whiskers were drawn across her cheeks. Caps on her canine teeth turned them into small fangs. A silver jingle bell hung from. ”“Fatima, we know this trip is survivable. All seventeen women are still active on Mark’s roster. How else can we search for them without going through?”“Aggie, we’ve had bad experiences with these one-way portals. Look how many people we have trapped down in Wobanakik. And it would be four more except for some quick thinking by Tom and Carla.”“Fatima, you’re making my point for me. The people of White Mall are much better off now because we took the risk and explored. The same thing will be. By 11:000 AM I was back and was sitting on the floor of Carolyn's living room playing Candyland with her little blonde three year old girl. Carolyn's eleven month old son was running around driving his cars all over my back, trying to disrupt our board game and generally being a pain. He was supposed to have gone down for a nap, but wouldn't stop crying when I tried that.I'd gotten roped into babysitting for Carolyn so she and Mike could go to her prenatal appointment. I didn't know Mike very. Once I was out of that challenge, I could see the rat maze ahead of me. The course monitor halfway through the minefield had been surprised when he saw me. The one at the end of the minefield just gawked as he handed me a bottle of water. I drank half and poured the rest over my head, anticipating sweating a lot inside the rat maze.I jogged to the rat maze and the course monitor there told me to follow the arrows as he put a safety harness attached to a rope on me. Just inside the entrance, the.