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"- I'll recognize the units, their strengths and their weak-
nesses. I know the thane's officers! If anyone stays back
here, it should be you!"
Flint gruffly assented. He led them down the sloping Up-
per Tubes, finally finding the entrance to the stairway into
the grotto.
They scrambled down the stairway, Flint taking the steps
two at a time. Both of them paused to look at the bench by
the pool, still covered with the containers of food and their
plates from the night before.
"Come on," Flint said at last, following the pool to its far-
thest corner from the stairway, where a large but low-to-
the-ground crack in the granite wall allowed access. A deep
channel had been cut in the sandy ground there, and pre-
sumably it and the crack had been formed by an old stream
bed; now the water left the pool by another, newer channel
ten feet beyond the old one.
"This is it." Flint took up Perian's hand and slipped into
the jagged fissure, leading the way. Before long they had to
walk in a crouch, as the top of the crack loomed close over-
head. Flint counted his steps out of habit from his old
dungeon-crawling days, and on step ninety-three, they
came abruptly into sunlight on a small crest cloaked in
pines
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