The Traveler | The Promised Neverland

Escape

"So, let's begin, Sparrow," Emma said, and threw the match then screamed Ray's name.

After Mama and Emma had their interaction, Emma ran down the hallway, only to see Norman still there, waiting for her.    

"What are you still doing here?!" She whisper-yelled.

"I'm here for your incision.  Sparrow told me you would cut off your left ear."  Her eyes and mouth widened, then she turned her head to the side.

"Quickly!" she hurried, and Norman made the incision then put the piece of her ear in a bucket.  The two then ran downstairs and outside to the rendezvous point.  Norman bandaged her ear up as soon as they grouped up.  Norman had disabled his own tracker before they had gone to see Ray earlier.  

"Alright, everyone, let's get moving!"  Emma called, and everyone started running after her, Norman and Ray lagging behind.  

"Sparrow," Ray whispered.

"She's amazing, isn't she?" Norman agreed.  "With her literal unworldly abilities, she caused all of this to happen."

Ray just nodded, and they continued to run until they made it to the wall.  Then Ray noticed the kids under five weren't here, and Emma told him how they would come back for them. Then they climbed up and started running in the direction Sparrow said the escape point was. 

After running for a bit, the alarm sounded, just as they made it to what looked like the place.  

"It went off earlier than I thought," Emma noted.  

"What do we do?  We're still far from the bridge."  

"It's fine, this should be the right place according to the map Sparrow gave me."

Emma looked down and saw a red stain that painted a fist with the middle finger sticking out, pointing towards the cliff.

"Norman! Ray!" Emma called.  They walked up to the front of the group.  "You said that Sparrow said she marked the spot, right?  Look." She pointed at the crude drawing.

"Is that...blood?  Did she cut herself to mark it?" Norman gasped in shock.  

"Why didn't we see it though?" Ray asked, cursing under his breath.  

"Her arms were covered... with her sleeves that day..." Emma recalled. She shook her head.  "Let's not worry about it right now.  What's done is done, even if it makes us want to undo it.  Let's just carry on for now."

Norman and Ray nodded, though Ray was confused as to why a place like this was marked.  

"What are we doing here anyway?" Ray asked.  

"We're crossing from here," Norman explained.

"Cross?" Ray repeated.

"It'll be okay, we trained so much!"  Gilda reassured.

"Trained?"

"Just watch," Norman replied, watching Don swing the rope then throw it to the other side of the cliff, wrapping itself around a tree branch.  

"Nat!" Don called.

"Yeah!"  Nat got the excess rope out of the way and pulled the rope up, making a zipline.  The kids cheered as it tightened.

"Norman, we can't be..." Ray asked, shocked.  

"It's fine.  As long as the heaviest person can cross, we can too." Norman replied, a smirk growing on his face.