“For the first, her short-term goal, she needed to escape from the hospital, because only then could she proceed with the second, and do everything possible to benefit the ocean.Every time she was permitted out of her room she studied details of the building carefully, and committed them to the copious memory compartments of her remarkable mind. Under her original, hastily considered plan, she’d noticed an apparent vulnerability in the Tea Room on the top floor—a fire escape that she’d thought s...he could use to reach the street, after which she would run through the village to the ocean. But a fellow patient, Beavan DeLorean, had given her a warning about that route, asserting that it was a trap laid by the hospital staff, to see who might try to get away, and then catch them easily. After thinking it over, she’d taken the cautionary words seriously.It was late afternoon now, and she stood at a window in the Tea Room, staring across the frosty rooftops to the sea, and a passing container ship, heading west.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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