Chapter Ten Summary

Meg awakens, her head aching from the blow of having landed on the wooden pallets. She looks around, dazed. The ceiling now has a hole in it. She looks beside her. The ceiling lamp. Meg remembers that she grabbed for the ceiling light as she fell from the basement's window. She must have pulled it free when she fell. When the light once resided, there is now a gaping hole. The hole leads into a hallway and just beyond, freedom for Meg.

She stacks the fallen crates again. She climbs up to the window. She leaps from the window to the ceiling hole. At first, her grip is tenuous. She begins to slip and fall. At the last second, she grabs a support beam and hoists herself into the room above. She finds she is in an old warehouse ground floor...