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‘They can coet below We need a place with one door and only one door’

‘Well, there’s the warehouse opposite – I know it quite well-’

‘Let’s go, then’

The guard went to the hatch, knelt at its edge and cautiously looked down into the rooan the descent

Mouard headed to the entrance, tugged the hanging back a fraction and peered outside ‘Looks clear I’ll lead, to that wall-’

‘The warehouse wall There’s a watchman, Chalas-’

‘If he’s still there I’d be surprised’

‘You have a point All right When we get to the wall, we head right Round the corner and in through the office door, the first one we’ll co doors will be barred’

‘And if the office door is locked?’

‘I knohere the key’s hidden’

The guard nodded

They stepped into the narrow corridor, turned left and approached the street

Three more strides

She threw a desperate look over her shoulder, then lunged forward in a sudden burst of speed

Gerun snarled, reaching out with one hand

A whi sound escaped her, and she raised the knife just as she reached the mouth of the alley

And thrust it into her own chest

Gerun was a hand’s width behind her, co opposite a side corridor between tarehouses, when he was grasped hard, pulled off his feet, and yanked into the dark corridor