Anuja

It was tricky, but worked like a charm. "how did you do it." I am sure you are asking. The guards couldn't stand ready all the time, so when they'd drop their arm for a rest I slithered by with my little string and tied them together, one by one. It had taken a lot longer than I had wanted, but luckily Will seemed to be waiting for the right moment to pounce.

Here you go buddy, now's your moment to pounce! I gave the string the tiniest pull, the guards did the rest. Hilarious! After releasing all of their arrows they turned and saw me laughing at them. Yes, not one of my best moves there, but everyone makes mistakes. Luckily, when they turned to chase me they got tangled up in my "web" and were tripping all over each other. I wish I could have stayed and watched them try to get free, but that was my cue to exit.

I ran down the dark corridors, jumping over guards and dodging waiters. I could have swore I nearly tripped over a little girl too, but I don't know what a little girl would be doing hanging out with Jerican guards. Somehow I managed to find the others. "There's some guys chasing me who want me dead." I declared, in kind of a bragging tone.

Without much thought, they all started running down the dark corridors. "Uh, I don't think you want to. . ." A door swung open suddenly as a fat man came through ranting about how his meal was ruined. "go that way." finished. We all cringed as Will hit the door with a thud.

Bon caught him, and I quickly grabbed him from her and threw him over my shoulder. Gosh, he was heavy! I only carried him a few yards when we came to and started kicking me, "Put me down, you buffoon! I am perfectly able to run! You're wasting time!"

"As you wish, your highness." Still a little bitter about being his slave boy, I dropped him flat on his hind quarters and continued running, just one more person to run from.

The corridors seemed to go on forever and we were all starting to get tired. We were all in pretty good shape, but even we had our limits. I stopped and held my hand out for the others to do the same. It was very quiet. After a few moments I whispered to the group, "I think we lost them."