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Coming To Terms
“You ready?” Raedrick asked Julian, and received a shrug in return.
“Don’t see any point in waiting.” Julian tugged at the strips of cloth he had fashioned into a rope. It would not do for those knots to let go. “How ‘bout you, big fellow?”
The thug who had attacked them in the cave grunted and tried to say something, but all that came through the gag Julian had forced into his mouth was a muffled bit of gibberish.
Julian looked back at Raedrick and flashed a nervous grin. “Let’s do it,” he said. Then he gave the thug a shove between his shoulder blades to set him to walking, and followed him into the tunnel leading outside.
Raedrick paused only to pick up the chest. It was not particularly large, but it was solidly built and heavier than it looked; good thing he w
