17. Not DogsThey ran up the street and noted on the other side of the road a black van parked out the front of an ice-cream parlour.
“We’re doing this all wrong,” said Stork. “If you want to flush a whole bunch of Secret Police out of a hideout, you just place a box of ice-cream at the door.”
“Look, masks,” said Sabienn. They passed by a street bin and saw tossed in on top a number of masks like a surgeon would wear. He surmised that they must have been discarded by the students who wore them at the protest. Quickly Sabienn grabbed two and they placed them on, hid their heads and kept walking on the other side.
At that moment, a female black draped figure with Haydd ears ran from the parlour and ran directly towards them. Sabienn and Stork stood bolt upright. They were about to take fli
