Ignoring the instinct to crawl into the fetal position, Rose bravely marched on. The impulse to know what else was out there was too great for her ignore. Every step was cautious. Every movement calculated. The Doctor, too, placed his feet gingerly on the grassy surface.

"Right," he said. "The task at had is to get out of here and get out off here alive."

"I can't help but feel like something is off, ya know? It's…"

"Oppressive." She nodded. "Well, according to my Sonic here, we've not much further to go, so…"

The Doctor's thought was cut off by a sudden and violent shaking. Rose fell to the ground unceremoniously and instinctively covered her head until the movement had ceased. Swallowing, she looked up. The hedge. The path. The grass.

No Doctor.

Her heart was in her throat. She stood quickly. "Doctor! Doctor, where are you? Doctor!"

"Rose, I'm over here." He called to her from behind, exactly where she thought he had been. Now, however, there stood a towering hedge. She rushed to it and placed her hand on the greenery.

"Doctor?"

"Yes, Rose. I'm here. I'm on the other side. There seems to be… um, well, giant shrubbery between us."

"Yeah. What happened?"

"I would guess it was one of ANNI's pleasant little tricks. The walls of the maze are shifting. As they shift, they separate us. She's trying to break us apart."

Rose's eyes widened. "How are we supposed to reach the exit?"

"That's kind of the point." Silence.

"Well, I can find you. You're right there, right? I can just find my way to you."

"The walls are moving, Rose. They'll move again, if I'm right."

She turned her back to the hedge and leaned against it. Rubbing the back of neck in much the same way she imagined the Doctor was doing right at the moment, she craned her head to the sky. The greyness, as it was certainly not blue, held no clouds, no depth. Seemed more like a ceiling than anything else. The hedge stretched up, nearly fifteen feet. She sighed. Then she bit her lip. She wasn't sure, but she thought a plan might be hatching in her mind.

The Doctor frantically ran through several functions on the Sonic screwdriver. Each one told him the same story: electropulses were changing throughout the maze, meaning the walls and floors were shifting. ANNI was trying to separate them.

"Bugger," he huffed. There had to be a way. There was always a way. "ANNI seems to be using some kind of electronic force to shift these hedges. If I can find a way to neutralize the signal, I may able to stop this." Calculations whizzed through his head. Figures danced. "Oh, you believe me, Rose, I am going to get us back together."

"I trust you." The voice was terrifyingly close to his ear. He jumped and whirled.

"Oi! What… what?" Rose stood before. He looked behind her: the hedge stood intact and unmoved. "How?"

"I climbed," she shrugged nonchalantly.

"Climbed?"

"Like a tree. Up and over."

He silently chided himself for not thinking of something as simple as climbing over the hedge. "Oh, you're brilliant, Rose!"

"Well, these nicks on my hands and legs might say otherwise, but I'll take the compliment." She took a deep breath and winced and the stabbing pain in her side. The exertion of climbing up the 15 or 20 feet had almost done her in. "Come on. And don't let go of my hand!"