Excerpt Chapter 22, The Magic Warble

The cat led them out of the very dark alley and across a street. Then it crossed over to another street and jumped over a fence into what seemed to be someone’s backyard.
It trotted over to a gate and rubbed up against it. Taysha followed and pushed the gate open with her muzzle. Then she went into the backyard.
“Why did you lead us here?” Kristina asked the cat.
“This is the prison warden’s backyard, and we need to go through it in order to get to the prison,” the cat said.
There was another gate at the back of the yard, and the cat pranced over to it and squeezed underneath it. Taysha approached the gate, and Kristina noticed that it was chained and locked to the fence.
“How are we supposed to get through this gate when it’s locked?” she asked the cat.
“I told you that I would lead you to the prison, but I didn’t say it would be an easy road,” the cat said, looking back at her with its fiery eyes.