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CHAPTER Thirty

CHAPTER THIRTY

The ancient walls sloped upwards on either side of Jimmy. Ahead lay the wooden door and the metal sign. The air tasted more exotic than he remembered, but it didn’t smell as old. Jimmy had the sense of having crossed a threshold. He’d entered the city beneath the city of his own volition. There was no going back. He’d committed himself to a course of action and had to accept whatever came after this.

The sound of his feet on the cobblestones sounded muted the closer he got to the door, as though coming from a long way away. He lifted his hand to knock but the top section was opened before he could.

The short elderly man peered out at him. “We’ve been expecting you for a while now,” he said.

“Yeah, I err, had a bit of trouble finding the place again.”

“We’d almost given up on seeing you.”

“You’re not the easiest place to find.”

“There are many good reasons for that.”

The elderly man opened the rest of the door and motioned, with a gracious bow, for Jimmy to come i
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