Where is he?
Where is Lobo?
He doesn't answer Minette.
Her eyes glimmering like Kaline's and Vedette's, she concentrates hard, as if she can make Lobo shoot out of the tunnel into the light with pure will alone.
[LOBO!]
Gussie, Demos, and I all scream his name through the link.
[LOBO! You crazy wolf.] Demos has dropped the chip on his shoulder, the competitiveness that blocked him from seeing the obvious. [There is no way this should be taking this long. ANSWER, will you?]
Gussie squawks in her mind and aloud. "LOBO! LOBO!"
[LOBO. Everyone is going crazy.] I'm equally intense, frantic, and on the edge of going in and getting him. [If you're stuck or in trouble, let us help you!]
Finally, I hear it.
A faint whine through the link.
[Lobo?]
