Thirteen Years Later, Two Blue Competition Badges Answered Every Question

Same room.”

Owen came in from the hall with a sleeve of crackers, sat down, and did not turn the tablet toward himself.

“Then we’re ten feet from him.”

“Eleven,” Eli said.

“It’s a wide room.”

Claire let out her breath before she answered.

“Does it matter whose table is whose?”

“It matters who finishes first,” Eli said.