“Yes.” She led the way past the two men and down the stairs, with Dad on one side and the cat on the other. There had been a lot of running, shouting, and offensive magic-use the last time she was down here, but without all that, it was fairly simple to get to the rec room she’d met Ezra in. Once they’d made it all the way down the stairs, they entered a cavernous tunnel with a canal running through it. A slow-motion replay of Archer falling toward it from high above flashed across Ridley’s mind, but she pushed the memory aside with a shiver. It made her sick to think of what would have happened if her magic hadn’t caught him.
She and Dad—and the cat, of course—crossed the bridge to the other side of the canal and walked through the conjured forest of trees and bushes that grew from the c
