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"I mean, is he consistent about going to bed at a reasonable hour, does he sleep soundly? Or am I taking my life into my hands entering his home in the middle of the night?"

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"Once he's asleep, he's asleep. Fire used to try to wake him up in the middle of the night by yelling from downstairs and it didn't work."

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"Okay."

Write, write.

"Why doesn't he have the place warded right? Is he stupid, or cocky, or is the place riddled with traps, or what?"
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"He's not... I mean... I don't think he thinks anyone would come in and steal someone from him. People don't do that."

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"Which definitely means I can only do this once."

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Shadow shrugs.

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Write. Write. (She's doing a lot of that.)

"Okay. I can stay up till - an hour or so past midnight. We can do it then."
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"Thank you," says Shadow.
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"Not quite yet," says Maurabel wryly.

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"Thank you for even planning to."

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"For that you're welcome. I've never shadow-walked before. Can we do a dry run of that?"

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"Okay," he says. He stands up out of his corner.

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"The fact that I haven't actually covered this in class will probably help with plausible deniability. I don't even know how. What's the procedure?"

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"We have to be touching. You can just hold my hand or something," he says. "And I'll do the rest. Humans aren't very good at steering a shadow walk, anyway. It's like all the parts of dark scrying you're bad at, but more so."

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"Okay," says Maurabel. She holds her hand out.

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Shadow takes it.

Complete darkness envelops them both. He switches to darksight without a problem, and navigates the shadow spaces, taking them out of Maurabel's room and then back into it at the other end.
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"Okay. So that's - straightforward on my end, anyway."

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"Yes."

Light returns, what little there is of it in the room. He lets go.
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"I think I'd better keep you checked out overnight. If I return you to the night attendant he's more likely to think it's weird since I'm usually not there at night."

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"Okay."

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"And then you and Fire can have your reunion right away as long as it's quiet - and I'd like to get some sleep before class even if it's only a few hours."

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He nods. "We can be quiet," he murmurs.

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"Okay. You can get me right next to where the amulet is? It'll be obvious?"

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"I can scry it first to show you if that'll help. But I think it's pretty obvious."

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"Scrying it can't hurt."

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