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Sir Bernard was much taller than he’d appeared at first, Adaria noticed as they walked through the tunnel. It was several miles underground, but it was the safest way to travel around the city now that the night creatures had taken over. Apparently, the tunnels had been existing for several decades now, and only a few people knew about them.
It smelled like wet clothes and mud, and there were cobwebs nearly everywhere. The darkness was like a veil stood out in front of them, and if it wasn’t for the ball of light which she had conjured, they wouldn’t have been able to see past their own noses.
“Hurry,” Sir Bernard called from the head of their group. “I think I left something on the fire. I don’t want to go back and find my cottage burnt down.”
He was nearly as tall as Nero, but
