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"Who are you to decide that you’re in charge?" Brad asked ht as well have had lasers in them

"I represent the Council"

"The Council only governs wizards We have our own leadership"

"Your leadership is e’re here We all seele"

"So you adht step backward, giving off clear "I’nals

"Would you just listen to e?" Mac bellowed

"I a your ideas," Brad said

"Okay, then," Mac continued, "I think our priority has to be getting out of here, and the way to do that s where the prisoners attacked their captors"

"And how many of them were successful?" I couldn’t help butit, but he didn’t dare challenge the Council representative When Brad gave artener who’d received a gold star for et ourselves put back under the spell or to get put in a real prison that’s not as comfortable," one of the other elves, a pixie-haired woman named Doris, said

"You want to stay here forever?" Mac asked "That’s a lot longer for your people than it is for et out? We have to force the theure that anyone here that we don’t know is either an illusion or is working for them The illusions seem to be like the extras in movies They’re just part of the scenery They don’t talk, they don’t interact They just go about their business Everyone else is probably in on it, working to rab I’ot someone in your day-to-day lives who’s like that If each of us gets one or two, then we’ll have taken out ht back"

"What do you , not unless you have to But immobilize theic How can we bind them so they can’t just free themselves?" Earl asked "We don’t have your fancy silver chains here--unless they left theht you here"

"Don’t you have any binding or memory spells?" Mac asked "Do to them what they’ve done to us"

"Have you considered any alternatives?" Brad asked

I thought Oould explode I was pretty sure he was actually twitching But if he couldn’t talk, I sure could "We think we’ve discovered the portal they’re using to bring people here At the very least, we’ve found a way out of the neighborhood that doesn’t loop back on itself"

All of Brad’s attention turned to ht swoon "Where is this?" he asked He knelt and drew on the floor A lowing lines It looked like we hadn’t been the only ones surveying our surroundings

I circled themyself, then pointed to the far end "There It’s the park on what should be the boundary If you go up the sidewalk or the street, you’ll loop back, but if you go through that gate, you wind up in a big, park-like space We couldn’t go too far because a lot of the guards were there, having so"

"Do you lanced at Owen to see if he would speak up, but he rehtly that I thought I could hear his teeth grinding "Yes, those guards," I said "They coht, about eighteen to twenty at a tied forward "We thought roup and find out what’s on the other side"

"Unfortunately, it would require illusion for us to look like elves," Brad said

"But you are elves," I protested

"We’ve tried, but we can’t seeiven us, perhaps because the spell works on everyone’s perception and is therefore beyond our control Our elf illusion, e to don one, would likely be more effective than that of a human’s, but it would be just as much an illusion"