"I have one theory, but I don't like it. Hold on here please, a short while. If I don't return in three minutes, I'm wrong, and probably in trouble." Turning to go the way he had been going, he rushead ahead. Valen wondered if he was right. Perhaps he hadn't gone past her. Perhaps she had gone ahead, and met something that had her appear back where she had been before. Perhaps she had gone to the very end, and appeared<em>behind him.</em><br/><br/>Only one way to know. He moved ahead, on his own as far as he could get in the hallway, until the end or until he'd see her before him again. He hoped it was a damned trick like he thought. Because it was the only idea that came to his mind on the spot. It would also explain her not finding anything in any of the rooms. If they were the same few empty rooms in a 'trapped corridor', naturally they'd be chosen to be exhaustingly boring, he reasoned. Wear down any attentiveness and wear out the wanderer.<br/><br/>Crafty trap if so, but he worried, seriously fearing what he'd find.