“Though it might feel as if you are groping in the dark, you should never stop looking for answers. No matter how dark the hour, the light switch you need might just be a single step away.”

Not knowing what to do next feels like groping about in the dark. It carries a false belief with it, that because you cannot see the way out, the way out must be far off. How dark it is tells you nothing about how far you have to go. At the worst point, Innocent had no way of knowing that the one decision which would settle the next ten years was days from being made. Answers do not send word ahead.