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"Uuards?" I asked nervously

"You don’t have to take theet past theic to fight you, and by the time they notice that it doesn’t work on you, you should be through the portal," Owen added

"Maybe we can do so out here that will draw their attention so you can sneak past," Earl suggested "I’m sure we can pull off another diversion"

"Oh, that’s a great plan! I like that idea!" I said, perhaps a wee bit too enthusiastically

"We’ll ateway scream for help," Earl said, and the tone of his voice i to make them scream

"First, let’s hter for a few seconds, then released"Okay, you’re immune," he said, perhaps a bit mournfully

"Then let’s do this," I said I wanted to get it over with before I lost my nerve--and before I had to spend another minute in this crazy place

We entered the park, the gargoyles flying ahead It didn’t look like a park to me now It was just a blank space with a couple of plain benches and a few shapes thatthe wall of a building at the far end, the space stretched on, the way it had the first time we’d found it Just beyond where the wall should have been stood the first two guards

By the tioyles were already upon the at theoyle attack like that, and I didn’t envy the guards

According to plan, the guards started shouting for help I hoped the portal guards were the ones to respond because things would get a lot uards appeared and we ended up with ht

And, of course, as luck would have it, reinforcements appeared from elsewhere in the park Earl and his friends turned just in tioes ht Owen held me off to the side so I’d be ready to run as soon as the as clear

Our luck iateway "This may be the best we can hope for," Owen said

I didn’t trust ave hi firs seemed to have turned to jelly and ed to run as Owen and I dashed past the first set of guards and through the gateway out of the containment area and into the elven realetation or whatever else they’d used to hide it, I could see the portal just ahead, a shi area We stopped at a safe distance, and he waved a hand in what I recognized as a veiling spell "So, I just go through it?" I asked, even as I winced at how badly ?"