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seemed
almost like a tunnel. Where the rock that had filled it now was anyone’s guess,
but I did not want to imagine what it would feel like if the rock came crashing
back while we were in there. At the end of the tunnel the sunlight shone
through a bunch of vines that we had to pry our way through. The smith took out
his knife but Woltan whispered. “No! We must alert no
one to the gate here!”
    Then I too was through, looking back at the tunnel
behind me.
    Before I could even wonder how to close it, it was
gone. I looked at the wall with my third eye and there was nothing.
    “Elias? Where is it?”
    Elias shook his head. “It’s a one-way gate.”
    Woltan turned to him.
“What? A one-way gate?”
    Elias nodded. “A prince used it, long ago, to get
away without detection.”
    “And when the prince wanted to get back?” Kara
asked.
    “He had to use another gate.”
    “Where is the other gate, then?” Woltan asked.
    “They’re all closed.”
    There was a moment of silence, then.
    Woltan was the first to
speak. “We need to get moving. We can figure out how we will get back in once
we get there. And if there is no way that will only make it safer for the
family and friends we have left behind.”
    If there was anyone to find a positive side to
something, it was Woltan . “Let’s get walking,” he
continued.
    Kara nodded. “The dark lord may have scouts about,
close to here. We must get moving. If we are lucky, we may be able to avoid his
creatures completely, but I doubt it.”
    “How do we know where to go?” I asked.
    “The Book of Id will guide us. But we may all be a
little lost until we get away from this forgotten city. The city has ancient
magic that confuses those close to it, and makes it hard to navigate here.”
    Woltan nodded. “Elias
may be able to help you get out of its range.”
    Kara walked quickly, and Elias followed her, and I
behind him. Behind me was Karsten , Cullen and Woltan in the rear. Kara seemed to be good at finding
anything that resembled a path, but I had no idea which way we were going.
There were bushes and tree limbs and ivy in every direction, and when we
couldn’t duck under something we had to hack or thrash our way through.
    It was slow going.
    I was feeling very tired, stumbling more than
walking, I sensed something strange ahead. But I could see nothing through the
overgrowth but a strange green glow.
    Elias spoke ahead of me. “You can feel it, can’t
you, Anders?”
    Kara called out. “It’s the path we took into the
city! After we fought the keiler !”
    We walked forward, and assembled in front of a
glowing line. I wondered if Cullen could see anything, but I was sure he could
feel the energy.
    No plants grew on either side of the line. It was
like a small cut in the vegetation, with nothing growing two feet on either
side. When I closed my eyes and opened the third one, I could see glowing green
running in both directions, toward the city and away from it, and the platform
underneath. When I opened my eyes, I could still see it faintly.
    “Can we ride it, do you think?” Woltan asked.
    Elias shook his head. “I’m not sure we could all
get on safely, and for all we know it’s not working properly.”
    “It was working fine when I and Kalle and I came in here. We rode it in.”
    Elias shrugged. “You rode it in , but I’m
not sure we can ride it out . Look at the way the energy is flowing. I
think there were two lines, originally.”
    When I looked at the green line again and tried to
detect movement, I could see what Elias was talking about. The energy was
flowing toward the city. I could see the wall in the distance. Elias was right.
    “Should we just follow the path, then?” asked Woltan .
    Kara nodded. “I know the way, more or less, once
we get to the gateway at the end of this path.”
    I had a funny feeling about this, but kept it to
myself.
    We started walking the path. The energy from the
line seemed to call to me, pulling at me, and