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I turned back, trying to see if I could free Beezle fro off the nowdead monster made it ihed and choked as the ss A heavy, oily residue filledever be easy?" I round and tried not to think about what I was crawling through My fingers clawed inin themy eyes and made them water

"Beezle, shout out, would you?" I called "I can’t find you in this -suffering tone, and it was not three inches fro-crawl through the mud

"That look really works for you," he said

"Why is it that I wanted you back again?" I said

I cae There didn’t appear to be any kind of door or lock

"How does this open?" I asked

"Antares sealed it with one of his momma’s spells," Beezle said

"Antares took you?" I asked "Did he throw the boh the , too?"

"Yup," Beezle said "He came up on the house under a cloak of invisibility and then manifested in front of ically bound and was tossing the bomb"

"Then he came back and took you to the portal in the alley," I finished "Do you know if he was the one who put the portal there?"

"I don’t think that he did," Beezle said thoughtfully

"It sees that I could catch, he was using someone else’s portal for his own device He see pretty clever"

"He usually does," I said "But ould he send et blown up? What’s the point?"

Beezle frowned inside the cage "What note?"

"The one that said, ‘I knohere they are keeping hie I could sense the spell that Antares had used to seal the cage shut It was iently with ic where it would give way The only thing that I was afraid of was a booby trap "Do you know if Antares wove anything dangerous in with this seal?"

"It didn’t seem that way, unless there’s a trap already inside the spell He was in kind of a hurry"