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Chapter 13 - 13

As it turns out, the intendant's neighbors are less fastidious in their security. You make your way to the next property over, which has mere wooden fencing along the street. Walking halfway down its length, you find a broken section, allowing you to squeeze through under the cover of darkness….

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As it turns out, your choice to climb over a pile of boxes bordering the intendant's wall was not a particularly excellent idea. As you try to hoist yourself over the iron spikes atop the wall, you lose your footing, and the pile collapses—loudly—behind you. You tumble end over end into the compound.

Shouts and the tromping of boots follow. You scramble to your feet to find two pistols pointed at your face, the weapons shaking in their owners' hands. There are about a half dozen guards in total, and the others have their swords in their hands or still sheathed on their belts.

Well, this is no good. Caught flat-footed and surrounded, you're in no position to summon a demon right now.