“W hat did you find out?” I ask the March.
We’re standing in the corridor, away from Tom. I don’t want him to know. If there is an imposter among us, then he is my number one suspect. Besides, he has to keep an eye on Constance. Though I don’t trust him, I know he will do his best to help her because he wants out of here.
“The writing on the walls still has more to deliver,” he says.
“Like what?”
“The Mushroomers found a part mentioning that Patient 14 possesses all the needed knowledge about the Six Keys.”
“That’s a bit farfetched, don’t you think?”
“It’s what’s written on the walls. It also explains why Waltraud and Ogier were torturing him and everyone else.”
“They wanted to know the location of Keys?”
“Exactly,” the March says. “At least that’s the reason why they tortured Patient 14. This also confirms that the writing on the wall in your cell was his, not yours.”
“Is that all?”
“There is one vague line that explains that only he, Patient 14, knows the Keys’ location, purpose, and that only he has all of them.”
“That’s not quite right,” I counter back. “Lewis gave me a key.”
“Lewis gave you the bullet Carolus wanted to use to kill him. It just happened to look like a key.”
I grimace. Things are twisting too much in my head. “How about the key I found in my stepsister’s house? The one the Pillar fooled me to get.”
“That was just a key you liked when you were a kid in that house,” the March says. “The Pillar played you to get it, but it’s nothing like the Six Keys.”
“How do you know this, March?”
“It’s all written on the walls, Alice. Patient 14 is very important. We need to know more about him. We need to know how all of this is possible and how he has the Six Keys.”
“That’s if he isn’t just an insane patient in an asylum,” I say, unable to guess who it could be.