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But then I saw another gray guy ahead of us, not quite at the end of the block "Owen," I e the way you’re walking Act noro up that next set of stairs"

"Is it an e?"

"I have no idea I didn’t case this street"

The gray guy wasfor us or just walking down the street I had to fight not to allow est twenty feet I’d ever walked before we reached the next set of steps To o up theuard drawing nearer

I stood so that passers-by couldn’t see that Oas unlocking the front door without a key, and just as he opened the door, the gray guy reached the steps He started to walk past as we entered the building, but as the door closed behind us, I heard his footsteps stop

The inside of this stairas blank, just a structural shell, so apparently no prisoners lived here That iven us away We didn’t have ti old, we ran through the featureless space as quickly as possible while still hitting the floor beauy hadn’t come inside yet, but I feared it was only ae reached a doorway Owen flung it open and we ran out into a finished stairwell

"Out?" I panted

"Up," he replied

Owen tried the door on the next landing, but it was locked--probably the home of a prisoner We ran up to the next level, where the door opened and ere able to enter another es behind us before we slowed down and took refuge against an exterior wall, between ts

"He didn’t follow us, did he?" I asked when I caught my breath

"I don’t think so"

"Did he see past our illusion?"

"It’s hard to tell Maybe he detected the difference betizard ic Or maybe he knows the illusions that are supposed to be in that area and we didn’t fit"