“Large ventilation shafts are in the ceiling. We could fly up and use one.”

    Hut was amazed, again realizing what a novice he had on his hands. With no training, Runagar was proposing to pilot a strange ilon off the floor and through a hole in the dome-shaped ceiling. It would be doomed from the start.

    “An expert might not be able to do that,” said Hut. “And I can’t teach you to fly inside the cave! Speckarin and Diliani would have a fit. Are there other exits?”

    “Just tunnels, like the ones we used to enter.”

    “Apparently the ravens weren’t fond of them.”

    “But they made it. We saw them all yesterday. They didn’t look any worse for t...

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