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MIKANDRA CLIMBED on the windowsill, onto the balcony. Up the railing. Whoa, it was a long way down there. She turned around and dangled her legs over the railing. One foot found a rung.
Jocassa had picked up the glass pane and was sticking it back into the window with a couple of globs of putty.
Mikandra shifted over the railing until both her feet were on the ladder. She put her full weight on the rung and climbed down. Her hands trembled.
Thasep whispered from the bottom, “Hurry up.”
Jocassa swung himself onto the ladder above her. His movement made the ladder shake.
The light went on in the room upstairs, flooding the yard in light.
Jocassa swore.
Mikandra reached the bottom, and ran for the shadow of the tree. A small light blinked amongst the greenery where Dalit sat. He’d
