Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

windowsill. “Woah, that’s a longer drop that I thought, but theroof held. Now as long as these crates do...” but the cluckingof the chickens drowned her out.Ava was hanging from the windowsill herself when a mancame out of the stall and started yelling at Yellelle. She triedto sound apologetic and tried to calm him down. She caughtthe words, ‘no guards,’ ‘sorry,’ and ‘no harm’ in her speechand ‘crazy,’ ‘wild,’ ‘temple girls’ (one word in Minoan) and‘guards’ in his. He went even more ballistic when he heardAva crash on his roof, even more when she tried to climbdown and knocked over his chicken crates. They tried to helphim stack them back up, but some of the chickens had gottenout and were even more animated than he was, so, likeescaped temple girls anywhere, they ran.They ducked behind other stalls, Yellelle calmed the fewowners who were already there and they walked out on thenext alley much more sedately.“What now?” Ava asked Yellelle.“Keep quiet and follow me.”She lead down smaller and smaller alleys in the bazaar,they became paths in residential neighborhoods, some hadtiny shops on their ground floors, some did not. Most weremud brick and timber with wood beamed tile roofs. Mostwere three stories, counting the roof, some two if the roof wasinaccessible. A little farther and there were some stonehouses, but the stone was rougher and the stucco more eroded460