I pulled my mouth up at one side, a childhood habit that’d stayed with me, shook my head and shrugged. Then, with a wave of my hand, I said ‘follow me’ to James, and with a zipping action across my lips with my index finger, I told him to zip it. There would be all kinds of predators nearby, human and animal, and I didn’t want to alert any of them to our presence if it could possibly be avoided.
I knew Dracopolis had no weak points I could enter by, but I decided nevertheless to make a close survey of its walls. I was hoping against hope I’d see something I’d missed on previous visits. A window that I could access by means of a grappling iron, or…or what? Putting my doubts to one side, I made my way closer through the Marsh to the city walls, moving in the general direction the Kwanon war
