“We have to get to the ship before them,” Edith said. She began pulling up the bedding. “We’ll disguise ourselves with these sheets.” “They’ll spot you straight away.” Voleta said. “That’s why I brought the rope.” “What do you expect us to do with rope?” “Squeeze through the bars and climb down.” “Don’t be mad, Voleta. We’re five, six stories up. Even if we climbed down, there’d be nothing but bars on one side of us and an open field on the other,” Senlin said. “We’d be spotted in an instant.” “That’s why I planned a diversion,” Voleta said, shimmying back into her cloak. “You two will slip
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