280 The Old Puppet

Olpi looked off into space for a moment before shaking her head. "Let's just do what you are going to do and talk later. Instructor Jersin is just aching for a reason to beat me, or any Demi."

'Get on with it,' Larque insisted. 'You're not going to make friends in a day.' Cerlius splayed his and Olpi's maps onto the ground. Olpi lit a torch so they could see. Cerlius pointed to the lower regions of the Academy, which neither his nor Olpi's map depicted. "There is a certain room somewhere in this maze. If we find it, we can go back. I won't ask you to do anything else."