"Wait here," Kit bids him, and adds before Myr can protest, "just long enough for me to go take a closer look. That front entrance is guarded, but if there's a window in that side alley, that might be a way for us to get in." It doesn't occur to him to question the goal of getting inside the warehouse, or to pass this responsibility off to someone else. The danger is immediate, and his nose is keen enough to tell him that they were already too late for some.
He touches his friend's arm one more time. "I'll be quick," he promises, and then slips around the edge of the building, moving with both swiftness and silence honed through over a decade in the Deep Roads. He sticks to the shadows.
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"Wait here," Kit bids him, and adds before Myr can protest, "just long enough for me to go take a closer look. That front entrance is guarded, but if there's a window in that side alley, that might be a way for us to get in." It doesn't occur to him to question the goal of getting inside the warehouse, or to pass this responsibility off to someone else. The danger is immediate, and his nose is keen enough to tell him that they were already too late for some.
He touches his friend's arm one more time. "I'll be quick," he promises, and then slips around the edge of the building, moving with both swiftness and silence honed through over a decade in the Deep Roads. He sticks to the shadows.