Your group continues on. After such a lack of progress, you'd expected them to show more irritation, but to your surprise, they continue on, uncomplaining and determined.
Maybe it's because it's either this or be in school, you tell yourself. You've almost died once or twice today, but if offered a choice between this and double maths, you're not certain you'd be able to give a snap answer.
"Are we sure that she is ahead of us?" Will asks eventually.
You turn, looking at him, and he gives you a shrug. "I mean, it's sort of vertical thinking, isn't it? Expecting her to stay on the path?"
Max frowns. "Wouldn't vertical thinking be expecting her to climb a tree or something?"
Will shakes his head. "What I mean is," he says, "we've no more reason to believe that she's on the path than we do to believe that she's…" his arm waves out "…climbed up that ledge, for example." He gestures at a steep slope upwards in the distance. It looks like the beginning of some sort of cliff, which at this point you'd not be too surprised to find in here.
"I doubt it," Sonia says, her voice flat. "Show a human a straight path or a long climb up a cliff, and I can tell you which they'll pick."
"That seems like a very cynical view of humanity," Will replies.
Sonia sighs, nodding. "Probably, yes, " she says. "Sorry, it's been a long day."
You can feel their attention starting to turn towards you. One way or another, this is going to be your call to make again.