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As soon as he ay, Jason turned and ran back the way he’d come

As he neared the inner wall, his pace slowed The ht penetrated the canopy of trees and bathed the trail in silvery light The way seeh the trees, approaching the gate froed border of forest across the clearing and saw ly close at hand, someone slapped a mosquito It was all Jason could do not to flail backward into the underbrush

The trap was already laid for the residents of Trinity Jason was determined not to fall into it Unnoticeable or not, Mick would still need to open the gate to let hi his breath, Jason crossed the open ate The back of his neck prickled At any moment, he expected to be slammed with an immobilization charainst the gate "Mick," he muttered "Open up"

There was no response

"Mick," Jason repeated, a little louder "It’s Jase Let lanced over his shoulder and saw three wizards step out of the trees, peering toward the gate Jason recognized Bruce Hays, packing his fancy staff

Jason pounded on the gate with the heel of his hand "Coate!"

Finally, he heard movement within, the unfortunately loud ru Irish profanity froe "Can’t a ht ’athout you getting your bollocks in a bluidy…"

Jason looked back at the wizards Hays raised his staff and pointed it directly at Jason

"Aetywan!" Hays shouted Mist spewed from the tip of the staff and enveloped Jason in a cloud of vapor

Unable to respond in his unnoticeable state, Jason held his breath to avoid breathing in the fuled to relo-Saxon

Aetywan That would mean…reveal?

"It’s Haley!" Shouts reverberated across the clearing

Jason looked down at himself The formerly unnoticeable Jason was indeed revealed It was like being stripped naked in thea block party thrown by your worst enemies

"Get hied toward hi like hounds on a scent More wizards poured out of the woods

"Mick!" Jason threw up a pathetic shield, braced his feet against the wall, gripped the edge of the gate, and yanked "Open up now or you et it!"

He was surrounded by wizards, a kaleidoscope of excited faces,mind-slayer at him Laered and went down, a victily sloith Mick’s litany of oaths continuing on the other side, though noith a certain sense of urgency Jason heard running feet inside the double-gated barbican, a thud of bodies against the gate, and it sla Jason and a handful of warriors into the no-man’s-land between the barriers

Jason scra his axe, bellowing a Gaelic battle cry Jack and Ellen and Jere the wizards back toward the outer wall Wizard fire spewed into the air, setting the treetops ablaze

How long before the fireworks and sounds of battle dreeir past the inner barrier and into the hands of the Roses?

Weaponless, Jason sprinted after the warriors as tizards closed in on them from behind Jason tackled one of the wizards and disabled hiers under his chin and applying power directly to that vulnerable place Ellen leveled the other one with the flat of her blade

"What is going on?" Jack de back a bolt from Hays’s fancy staff "It looks like all hell’s broken loose"

"Big trouble," Jason gasped "There’s an ar out there They’ve put up their oall They’re planning to trap people and take hostages We’ve got to go back"

Reluctantly, the warriors left off chasing wizards and retreated, spraying flaate, Jason helped slam the locks into place while the walls shuddered under the wizards’ assault

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