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. Harum's powerful arms propelled the draconian
brute across the room. Led by Sintk, the prisoners leaped on the
draconian, pummeling him with their bare hands. Sintk finished
the brute with a swift dagger stroke.
Hearing nothing from their leader, the three hobgoblins
hesitated on the stairs, then came to an abrupt halt. The soldiers
behind them were bottled up in the stairwell, but they too were not
anxious to enter the guardroom and face the aroused minotaur. But
it would only be a matter of time . . .
Meanwhile, William had noticed that the torches on the wall of
the guardroom were flickering-and always in the same direction
and it wasn't coming from the door! Crawling along the wall, he
discovered a draft whistling around a huge block of stone. Pushing
against it, he found it opened into a dark passage.
"This way!" he yelled.
Everyone scrambled after him. The passageway was dark and
spooky. Maintaining a fast pace, William led them for several
hundred yards, until he saw a silver fingernail of moonlight. He
gestured for them to pull up.
William crept up to a barred outlet that looked out onto a
moonlit landscape. The tunnel exit was near the sea and the wind
was directed into the tunnel by a curving stone sea wall. Across
the flat plain could be seen the winking lights of Port Balifor, no
more than half a mile in the distance.
Unfortunately, their escape was barred by a heavy metal grating
that covered the end of the tunnel
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