Larry kicked away his skateboard,

Larry kicked away his skateboard, he sited it in his mind in case he had to come back for it. He turned and started running. He wanted to get past the wave of government vehicles heading his way and then come in from behind like he was part of the crowd. The crowd freaked out around Larry's two kids. The pandemonium worked its way out ward slowly, not everyone on the square understood what happened, some thinking it was just fireworks, or perhaps an auto backfire. But as screams yelled out and people began to run, the occurrence spread. People began falling over each other. In the middle of the square a group of latinos were playing a game, ambivalent as to what happened a short ways away. The game involves a kind of large top-like spindle that can be lassoed with some string, whirled and then tossed onto the area between the players. The game is intense and part of it is to keep the top spinning.

Larry ran from East Palace to East San Francisco, then  went into La Fonda and worked his way back through the hotel and out the other side. He saw cars with lights heading toward the square. Larry went to the left out of the back of La Fonda and followed East Water to Cathedral and went back up to Palace and back towards the square.

Larry stopped behind the squad cars then walked across the street onto the square itself, avoided the spindle top as it came near him. He looked over where his kids were.

Edoba wondered why he risked himself after doing what he had just done.

Larry went clear across the square as more official cars showed up and police and government types poured out into the area everywhere.

Larry headed downhill. Made his way over to the Hotel St Francis, ducked inside the lobby and walked over to the check-in booth, behind which is a kind of dumb-waiter door. He threw it open and jumped down into the tunnel underneath the hotel. He knew this was here from having checked in a long time ago and at another time, on a romantic walk of Santa Fe with a tour guide telling about ghost stories of Santa Fe. The guide had let it be known the tunnel leads up to the capitol building.