"I don't remember it."
"Of course you don't. You were too busy thinking about other things with your conscious mind. But your subconscious recorded it, and it's still there. It was after Dr. Herrigg stopped the car and we all got out."
"But we walked for half an hour after that."
"I know. But at least we know where we started from. The memory was very strong when we came into these woods. We must have been just about here. The atmosphere is identical. There was also the sound of the sea. We walked away from it. Where would you be if you walked half an hour straight into these woods?"
"At a swamp clearing. But there isn't anything there."
"Are you sure?"
"Positive. It's part of my property."
"There's something else," Toffee said slowly. "We heard the ocean again, just before we arrived at Herrigg's laboratory. So we couldn't have walked back into the woods. We must have gone somewhere else."
"But we traveled straight ahead," Marc objected. "We didn't turn."
"Are you sure this isn't a peninsula? We might have walked across it."