Diana Wynne Jones by Castle In The Air

Author:Castle In The Air [Air, Castle In The]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2010-11-17T11:16:00.758000+00:00

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and three large men in uniform plunged into the room. At the same

instant the soldier's boot met the window frame with a bang. The

casement burst open, and the soldier went scrambling out over the sill.

The three men shouted. Two made for the window, and one dived for

Abdullah. Abdullah overturned the oak settle in front of all of them and

then sprinted for the window, where he hurdled the sill out into the

drenching rain without pausing to think.

Then he remembered Midnight. He turned back.

She was huge again, larger than he had ever seen her, looming like a

great black shadow in the space below the window, with her immense white

fangs bared at the three men. They were falling over one another to get

away backward through the door. Abdullah turned and ran after the

soldier, gratefully. He was pelting toward the far corner of the inn.

The fourth constable, who was outside holding the horses, started to run

after them, then realized that this was stupid and ran back to the

horses, which scattered away from him as he ran at them. As Abdullah

bounded after the soldier through a sopping kitchen garden, he could

hear the shouting of all four constables as they tried to catch their

horses.

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