Chapter 31

• Nova moved fast and picked up the journals she’d marked with any mention of men being taken. She looked down at the number of them. How was she getting them up the ladder? Someday she needed to look into how to build stairs.
• Reaching the ladder, she looked around. She’d never actually used the one that was in the closet. There were three ladders installed, for fire escape purposes she always imagined. There was also a tunnel to the old system that ran under the streets. She’d never done more than shone a light there. After looking in it, she decided there was no scenario she could imagine that could happen that she’d ever purposely take that route.
• Dropping the journals into a small wicker basket, that was probably three times her age, she awkwardly went up the ladder.