“And now, the pawns are gone, and our magic dust is gone. That means that whatever injuries we get from here on out, we keep. So I’m gonna scale the side of the cliff. And I’m taking Rose with me.”
“No, you’re not,” Gray declared.
“Yes, I am,” I said, not giving him an inch.
Gray sized me up. When he realized that he would have to go through me to stop me, he wisely backed down. I could see him boiling on the inside.
“We’ll go around,” Gray announced. “Bob you go first, followed by Rose, and then the rest of us.” He turned to me. “You’re goin’ last.”
I wasn’t sure what he was doing there. If he thought going around was dangerous, he should have had me go first. What else did he have in mind?
After a quick search, I found a path that scaled the cliff face. It was narrow, but it dipped
