Then Justice struck them cold again with his next words. “No, they won’t find it open, because I closed it several times, but I left it closed. They’ll never find that spring in a million years.”
A groan of disappointment went up at his words and their hearts sank like lead.
“We’ll get out somehow,” repeated Katherine determinedly, after a minute. “We were shut up in a cave once before, and we got out all right.”
“Yes, but that time Slim and I were on the outside, not on the inside with you,” the Captain reminded her.
“Yes, and that time it wasn’t so cold,” said Sahwah, vainly trying to stop shivering, “and we had eaten so many strawberries that we could have lasted for days. I’m hungry already.”
“So’m I,” said Slim decidedly. “I’ve been hungry for an hour.”
“You’re always hungry,” said Justice impatiently. “I guess you’ll last as long as the rest of us, though.”
“Stop talking about ‘lasting,’” said Katherine with a shudder of something besides cold. “You give me the creeps.”
“If we only had something to break the door down with!” sighed Justice. “It would take a battering ram, though,” he finished hopelessly.
“Too bad Hercules’ old goat isn’t down here with us,” said Sahwah with a sudden reminiscent giggle. “He could have smashed the door down in no time with his forehead.”