because he felt they ought to be tougher and have bucked up a bit by now.
'I can't think with all this noise going on,' he muttered to
himself.
He tried to block out the words of comfort being uttered by Paidia and Gelio as well. “Sssh, sssh,” they were saying with their arms around the sobbing shoulders of the weaker ones. “Don't cry. You're quite safe. We're all here together and everything's going to turn out fine.”
The pupils reached a door which they immediately guessed must be to Room number 10. It was covered in a pattern of angular shapes. Despite the whole building being made of stone, the wall either side of the door was built out of bricks in the shape of right-angle triangles. To the left was a diagram of a tree, made up of squares, although when Muko looked at it closely he could see that in the centre of each group of squares there was a right-angle triangle.
Something stirred in Muko's memory: the image of a triangle surrounded by square flaps rang a bell with him. The effect was instantaneous. Suddenly he was transported into a quite different life in a series of vivid flashbacks.