That's what he'd thought. Harvey couldn't really blame the man for not wanting to throw his lot in with them again, seeing how it had gotten him a series of nasty injuries the night before. He knew firsthand how painful burn wounds were, so there was a chance he was even confined to his room for the moment. It was hard to imagine Recluse laid up in bed, but who knew?

Seeing how Jones had made the same judgments about their progress thus far that he had, Harvey figured he might as well toss out his earlier idea. "Well, we could try scaling the wall, but into the courtyard instead of out to the surrounding area," he suggested. "It'll bypass the Sun Room, at least." Harvey knew that the courtyard or the soccer field were likely to have nasty things that wanted to deter them just as much as the Sun Room did, but at least it would be a change of pace.

As much as he hated climbing walls.