Book Five, Chapter 62: A Walk Down Memory Lane
With an abundance of caution, we decided not to go to the bowling alley immediately but rather to head back to the loft to do some research.
Now that we knew the name of the storyline—or at least were reasonably confident that we were on the money—we could do some digging. The only way to confirm that this was the right storyline, unfortunately, was to find the actual omen and see if the missing posters of Logan and Avery appeared on it when we were near it.
It wasn’t that I didn’t trust the mini-quest we were on; it was that I didn’t need to trust when I could verify.
If we had the most recent copy of the Atlas, we would have all kinds of details about the bowling alley, even if it was missing a whole bunch of older stuff. But since we had the older version, Grace and her team weren’t around to map out how to navigate that area.
Luckily, we weren’t going to try bowling or hanging out indefinitely. We just needed to get in and get out, and I was confident that my scouting trope would be sufficient for that.
On the one occasion we had gone to the bowling alley before, I was able to anticipate most or all of the problems that Grace and her team had studied, even if I didn’t know how the individual mobile omens would behave.
Avoiding them would not be a problem, but we would certainly not be able to bowl a whole set.
As soon as we got back to the loft, we sat in the living room crisscross applesauce because we didn’t have enough chairs for everyone, so it was first-come, first-served.
Meanwhile, Kimberly whipped out her phone and dialed up her talent agent, Sal.