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We were nearly past when one called out: "You’ll die!"

Emma stopped and turned, defiant "What was that?"

"You’ll die"

The ed on a sheet of cardboard, his yellow eyes peeping through a burrow of black hair "No one crosses their bridge without permission"

"Wewe should beware of, speak now!"

The lounger stifled a laugh The rest were silent

Emma looked them over "None of you will help us?"

One un, another o, and in a few days we’ll have their drippings!"

Athe shantytowners

"Oh, what I wouldn’t give for a vial of that," said a wo a s!"

"Stop, it’s torture!" another whimpered "Don’t even mention it!"

"To hell with all of you!" Eet you across, Addison the Intrepid"

And we turned away in disgust

The bridge was narrow, arched in the middle, and built from marble so clean that even ash fro on it Addison stopped us just shy of the edge "Wait, there’s so here," he said, and we stood by nervously while he closed his eyes and sniffed the air like a clairvoyant reading a crystal ball

"We need to cross noe’re exposed out here," Emma muttered, but Addison was elsewhere; besides, it really didn’t seee, nor was anyone guarding the barred gate on the other side The top of the long white wall, where you ht expect to see men posted with rifles and binoculars, was similarly empty Other than its walls, the fortress’s sole defense seemed to be the chasm that curved around it like ariver that released the sulfurous green steae was the only way across that I could see

"Still disappointed?" I asked Eht insulted," she replied "It’s like they’re not even trying to keep us out"