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"Ah, good, a stealth operation We’re dressed perfectly, then"

"Very funny"

I was in hard-soled shoes that made every footstep sound like a han, and I’d only recently found the energy to stand on ht about these things, and I had come to depend on her instincts

"If someone spots us, so be it," she said "Theto kick us out now for giving ourselves a little tour"

She opened theand clie I stuck my head out cautiously We were two stories above an enized a stack of firewood: it here we’d been hiding when Sharon exited the abandoned-looking storefront Directly beloas the law office of Munday, Dyson, and Strype There was no such firm, of course It was a front, a secret entrance to Bentham’s house

Ereat fan of heights, but I won’t let you fall"

After being dangled above a boiling river by a hollow, this little drop didn’t seee ide, and decorative knobs and gargoyle faces protruded everywhere frorabbed on, and shie turned a corner, and we felt fairly certain that ere paralleling a hallway out of Sharon’s viee tried opening a

It was locked We shimmied on and tried the next one, but it, too, was locked--as were the third, fourth, and fifth s

"We’re running out of building," I said "What if none of them open?"

"This next one will," Emma said

"How do you know?"

"I’ shattered glass into the roo

"No, you’re a hoodlurinned at me and then knocked the last few shards froh the opening I followed, somewhat reluctantly, into a dark and cavernous rooht calow revealing the edge of a packrat’s paradise Wooden crates and boxes cli only a s Benthas away," Emma said