Meggie chewed thoughtfully on the end of her long blonde hair. It stood to reason, she supposed, that this maze would go on forever. She looked at it like the mazes in the old books she would read about princes and damsels in distress. If you supposed that in the world *outside* a particularly magical maze, and Meggie had very strong assumptions this was a strongly magical maze indeed, the world would make sense. Which is to say, roads followed paths that got people from A to B; the sky stayed put above ones' head; grass grew underfoot. Normalcy, as it were, was as carefully maintained by nature and man as possible for the sake of efficient movement. And in a maze, she reasoned, it was the opposite. The goal was inefficiency. Chaos. The knight errant charges blindly and blithely forth to request sweet maiden in the tower, but then queue the next scene, dragon is making knight kabobs.
She didn't want to be a kabob for some fire-breathing nightmare. It wasn't even remotely what she wanted. She wanted the home promised her, her father back, her family back. Clutching at the orb warmed by frightened, sweaty hands as if it were the last memory of her father Meggie would ever hold Meggie decided to therefore change direction completely. If the goal was to take advantage of her predictability she would force herself to be unpredictable. She would make every action contrary to the one she'd instinctively wish to do no matter how crazy it might seem or what danger she might see ahead.
But what to do first? She wanted naturally to run ahead and conquer the impossibly long corridor. But again, dragon kabobs. Running back though would be equally illogical just in a different direction. Meggie decided the most unpredictable thing she could possibly do, therefore, would be nothing at all, so she stopped, sat down, and calmly tried to coax another image of Mo out of the orb. "If I sit here long enough," she muttered. "Maybe I'll fall through the floor and right into the City. Or more likely into some dank ogre-filled pit, if the storybooks have say here."