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Vol.7, Ch.3, P.3

After much sneaking and many stairs taken, Björn and I had alighted upon the ground floor, and began now to make for the college entrance. Cross the doors and out into the open, and we could start at last to seek after our missing companies.

The plan was to bear south-eastwards thence. Björn and I, having joined up not far from the lectitōrium, had so far circled our way from east to north, and then hither the west, all the while having chanced upon not one trace of our companion quarries. That left only the south to search. Of course, Merkulov being large, it was possible that we might’ve missed some trace or token along the way. But considering the testimony from the princess’s lady-in-waiting—that Lise and company had fled southwards from the first chaos—that did not seem so likely.