Lost Boys

Kashi ran nearly into a wall of bamboo, turned, narrowly avoided another wall, turned, skidded to a stop at a dead end, back tracked, kept running, turned some more, and the rest was a blur. Eventually he came to another dead end. It felt like the 80th dead end he had found. He couldn't hear the fighting anymore which either meant he was far enough away that he couldn't hear it, or that he had wasted so much time the fighting was already over. It didn't seem like the crazy lady was following him, however, so he sunk to his haunches in the corner of the dead end of the maze exhausted and out of breath.