The two of them explored for a while longer, trying the classic maze-solving technique of always heading in one direction, but they couldn't find an exit.
Annabelle Linton handed Leona Grant a flashlight, and they split up.
'I'm so glad I had a backup plan and brought this stuff,' she thought. 'Otherwise, I don't know what we would've done.'
They went in different directions, agreeing to return to their starting point if they found nothing after 200 meters.
After half an hour of this, Annabelle Linton and Leona Grant returned to their starting point.
They then swapped directions and went another 200 meters. Two hours later, they still had nothing.
Leona Grant stared gravely at the maze. "This is a self-reconfiguring maze," he said. "The layout shifts every eight minutes and thirty-two seconds. We have to get out within that time frame, or we'll be trapped here forever."
