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we were lost.
the tunnel looked nothing like the one percy and i had fell into before. now it was round like a sewer (gross), constructed of red brick with iron barred portholes every ten feet. percy shined a flashlight down one of them, but there was nothing on the other end. just infinite darkness.
i held out my palm and brought forth a ball of glowing pink energy. it lit up the maze better than my flashlight. it also warmed the place up a little.
i tried to guide us through the labyrinth. a trick to get out of a maze is to keep the same hand on a wall and follow it to your way out. since the labyrinth is a maze, it might work, to some extent. i hoped (okay, fine! i was bullshitting this technique).
"if we keep one hand on the left wall and follow it," i told them, "we should be able to find our way out again by reversing course."
and that's when the left wall disappeared.
we found ourselves in the middle of a circular chamber with eight tunnels leading out, and no idea how we'd gotten there.
"um, which way did we come in?" grover said nervously.
i took a breath, and tried to stay calm. "just turn around."
we each turned toward a different tunnel. it was absolutely insane. none of us could decide which way led back to camp.
"left walls are mean," tyson said.
annabeth asked me, "which way now?"
i ran my energy beam over the tunnels and sang the counting rhyme in my head. eenie meenie miney moe, catch a tiger by the toe, if he hollers let him go, eenie meenie miney... moe. i looked at the tunnel my energy beam landed on.
"that way," i pointed.
"how do you know?" percy asked.
i shrugged, "deductive reasoning."
"so... you're guessing."
"just come on."
early on in the tunnel, i had decided that i would use 'one potato, two potato' for my next tunnel. this one sucked.
