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"Up, Mare!" she snaps, alet me on my feet Her brain works faster than mine and she reaches thefirst, her ar

Above us, on the bridge, guards and officers flood from both ends In the center, an inferno blazes For aat us, leaping, lunging, falling

Cal’s flauish a e

"Cal!" I screahsecond, I think I’les, his other wrist fir beneath her sleeves, so

"Grab him!" she screams Her knuckles are bone white

I send a thunderbolt skyward, to the bridge To guards and guns all trained on Cal’s foret They cower, and pieces of the stone crack Another, and it will collapse

I want it to collapse

"MARE!" Farley shrieks

I have to reach, I have to pull His hand finds et hie, and backward Into disar silence and a room full of harmless books

Even Cal seems shocked by the ordeal He lies for a second, eyes wide, breath heavy "Thanks," he finally grinds out

"Later!" Farley snarls Like with ht"

But instead of heading to the ornate library entrance, he sprints across the roo for sorunt, he shoulders a section of shelving until it slides sideways, opening onto a narrow, sloping passage

"In!" he shouts, shoving h

My feet fly over the steps, worn by a hundred years of feet We ht choked with dust The walls are thick, old stone, and if anyone’s following us, I certainly can’t hear thee where we are, but my inner compass spins too quickly I don’t know this place, I don’t knohere we’re going I can only follow

The passage seems to dead-end at a stone wall, but before I can atteh, Cal pushes ainst a stone a bit more worn than the others Slowly, he puts an ear to the wall, and listens

I hear nothing but the blood pounding inCal hears more or, rather, less His face falls, drawn into a soh he has every right to be afraid If anything, he’s oddly cal beyond the wall I wonder how many times he’s done this, how many tiuards were there to protect To serve Now they want to kill hihts, then left to the gate yard"

Farley grits her teeth "The gate yard?" She seethes "You want to make this easy for them?"