“Looks that way, doesn’t it?” Aahz said, staring at the map.
“That doesn’t matter and you know it, Aahz,” Glenda said. “At least you could tell your apprentice the truth.”
We all turned and looked at where she was leaning on a table with a naked dead guy right behind her.
“How’s that?” Aahz asked, clearly not happy at Glenda’s tone.
“We can’t escape this place without beating this map,” she said. “And beating the map means capturing the golden cow, who I assume, is the leader of this entire dimension. That golden cow is the only one who is going to let us go, and you know it.”
At that point I was convinced that all the blood loss had gotten to her mind. The only thing I wanted to do was find a way out and run or fly as fast as we could until we were far enough away that we could hop dimensions and get away from this insane place.
“Come on,” I said, smiling at her. “That would be crazy. Going after the head of all the cow vampires would be suicide. We’d end up like all these fine food products around us. Glenda, it’s clear you need to rest.”
No one said anything. Glenda just kept staring at me and slowly I realized that neither Aahz or Tanda were telling her how crazy she was either.
I turned to my mentor, who had a sheepish look on his face.
“She’s right,” he said. “We wouldn’t stand a chance of getting out of here, against the kind of magik we are facing, without the help of the map.”
I looked at Tanda.
She smiled at me. “They’re right. I can barely, with Glenda’s assistance, keep us hidden. The magik around here is so powerful, we wouldn’t stand a chance without help from the top. And the map is leading us to that help.”