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lizard in Sanctuary, saying he wanted only to risk what was necessary, but he carried the Wolven and its
quiver of arrows over his back.
"Who do you think?" DragonStar said.
DareWing frowned, and then a thought so extraordinary occurred to him that he halted, and
 grabbed DragonStar's shoulder. "But they're deadl"
"So were you," DragonStar said, his eyes crinkling with humour.
"The Strike Force," DareWing breathed, his eyes unfocused, his mind remembering the thrill of the
hunt through the thermals.
DragonStar nodded.
DareWing refocused his gaze on DragonStar's face. "No wonder you wanted to bring me back as
one of your five."
"The Strike Leader. Yes."
DareWing breathed in deeply, filled with such joy he could hardly believe it. The Strike Force!
"But first we must negotiate Spiredore," DragonStar said, "and find out if its stairways are still safe."
They walked the remaining distance to the chasm in silence, and it was only once they were there
that DareWing came out of 'his reverie enough to ask how they were going to get across. "Didn't you use
the bridge to cross into Spiredore?"
"Not exactly," DragonStar said. "I used it as a focus for my own enchantment. I don't
actually need the bridge to cross, but I do need something to focus on in order to return us —"
he hesitated slightly over that word, and DareWing glanced sharply at him, "— to this
point. But a bridge we do not actually need."
DragonStar reached behind him and drew an arrow out of his quiver. In one powerful movement, he
thrust it into the ground before them.
Its blue feathers and its shaft quivered slightly with the residual force of DragonStar's action, then it
stood still.
"And so," DragonStar said, unsheathing his sword and drawing the doorway of light, "now
Spiredore."

StarGrace climbed higher and higher through the crazy world of Spiredore, her temper increasing with
every step.
Where was this tower leading her? She'd climb to the sun before she ever reached a destination!
Suddenly she halted, and her entire body stilled.
There was something else in the tower. StarGrace didn't know in what other manner to
describe the feeling, only that in the space betwixt one heartbeat and another something
else had stepped into Spiredore.
Qeteb? One of the other Demons?
No. This presence had a different feel about it.
There! Above her! StarGrace crouched under an overhang of a balcony and peered upwards.

DragonStar paused in their passage through Spiredore. "It is not as safe as it once was," he said. "We
must be careful."

She narrowed her eyes, searching the gloom above, then paused. Two men, one Icarii, one not, walking
down a stairwell.
StarGrace almost panicked, for they were coming directly towards her, but just before they turned
the curve of stairs that would have brought them face to face, the two men turned into a balcony, and
vanished down a tunnel of blue mist.
StarGrace waited a few minutes until she was sure they were gone, then she resumed her climb.
Within two turns of her stairwell, Spiredore presented StarGrace with another blue-misted
tunnel.