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The door closed roughly six feet above her No wonder it was hard to

find It would be even harder on this side of the door since there was

no handy set of stairs to cli wiped water off her face It

was raining She looked up the path It looked like the rain got worse

up ahead

The deain, and she was alone

in the forest with no sense of direction She ran for the shelter of a

thick tree It was less wet beneath the tree’s wide canopy, and Meg

tried to pull out her co three times

before ad the truth

“Bastard” It was obvious that the human version of Dante had

helped himself to a souvenir of her visit That damn computer would

have been helpful

She heard rushing water to her left and knew she was in luck The

village had been built to take advantage of the river She could follow