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Excerpt from the Labyrinth Companion

The meadow was beautiful, but it’s not really magical, Nancy thought to herself. I wonder what Judy meant; she’s not usually this far off-base. Nathan and Ariel were throwing a ball back and forth, Ralph was polishing off his fifth s’more, and Nancy was putting away the last of the food when Brice called out, “Look! Down at the far end by the bushes. There’s a gate! Can I go take a look?”

“We’ll all go.”

Brice ran ahead of his family. As he approached the gate, he saw there was a sign on it: “THIS WAY TO THE COMPANIONS’ LABYRINTH,” he announced as the others drew near.

“What’s a lab-e-rinth?” asked Ariel.

“It’s a maze!” cried Brice. “C’mon, let’s go!”

“What’s a maze?” asked Nathan, backing away.

“It’s a puzzle,” said Brice. “It’s got all kinds of twists and turns, and you have to find your way to the center without getting lost or stuck.”

“Don’t want to get lost,” said Nathan as he backed even further away.

“We’re not going to get lost,” said Nancy. “A labyrinth is a special kind of maze. It does have a lot of twists and turns, but there are no wrong ones; if you keep going on the path, you always get to the center.”

“What’s the point of that?” asked Brice. He stuck his hands in his pockets and started kicking at a rock.

“Maybe there’s something special in the center?” Ariel’s voice told everyone she longed for it to be so.

“Maybe,” Nancy said; “maybe there is.”

“What?” asked Nathan as he tried to look through a knothole in the gate.

“I think we’ll have to find out for ourselves.” Nancy looked at her husband. “What do you say?”

Ralph shrugged. “Okay. But who do you suppose the companions are?”

Nancy smiled. “Another one of life’s mysteries..”

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