“This is very strange,” Tanda said as we got near the center of town. “How boring would it be to go to bed when the sun set every night? I’d go stark-raving crazy in a matter of days.”
Tanda was the kind of person that always had to be doing something: going on adventures, shopping, or partying. I had no doubt that it wouldn’t take her days to go crazy here.
“I just wonder what they are afraid of,” Aahz said. He pointed to one building. “Those shutters look as if they could take a pretty good pounding and still hold.”
“It was the same way in Evade,” I said. “But I was awake all night and never heard a sound from outside.”
“More than likely this is just an old custom,” Tanda said, “and we’re still so far out in the sticks, away from any larger cities, that the custom remains.”
“Are there larger cities in this dimension?” I asked.
“Who knows?” Aahz said. “Just stay alert and watch for anything unusual.”
He didn’t have to tell me to do that, since I was already on full alert. And even though flying, combined with no sleep the night before, had me exhausted, I doubted I could sleep now even if I wanted to try.
Aahz found a sliver of light coming from the shutters of one store and stopped. He unfolded the map and we gathered around, trying to be as quiet as we could while we looked for our next destination.
“You were right, Skeeve,” Aahz whispered, patting me on the back.
The map had changed.
Baker, the city we were standing in, was now the focal point of the map, and two roads led toward two other towns from Baker. The treasure was now marked in a town called Silver City. Dodge City wasn’t even on the map. Glenda was going to be mad. I wished I could be there when she discovered how stupid she had been.