Chapter 7
IT WAS NO LONGER SAFE to stay in the warehouse. It was probably no longer safe to stay anywhere in the artisan quarter because the guards would just keep looking for whatever they were looking for, besides magical things, and would pick up more people. They would use any excuse to arrest people, including waving around a metal rod. They were looking for people to scare and intimidate. And they were doing it in the artisan quarter because many of the citizens of Saardam cared little about those who lived there and because they had always been “strange” people and wayfarers. So they couldn’t stay here anymore. Nellie had an idea where they might go, but she needed time to check it out. But first she had to go back to the palace for more leftovers the next morning. Now that Zelda w
