Chimera, Part 1

Despite Sam’s eagerness to chase after Chimera’s agents, the Endless Maze had him stumped. There was a horror waiting behind nearly every door, ghostly phantoms mingling with the will-o’-wisps floating in the air, and revenants of lost heroes charging out of the fog were just some of the varied attractions within its warped space.

“This maze is so godsdamn confusing,” he’d often complain.

If it wasn’t for Farsight’s power of probability—and even these insights were hit and miss—Sam wasn’t sure they would have ever caught their enemy’s trail.

“We’ve taken a wrong turn, haven’t we?” Jackboot asked after they’d met their latest dead-end passage.

Farsight’s response was to kick hard at the ground. “It’s all these damn probabilities...like finding the needle in a haystack of infinity!”