"I may be able to get most of your things." she promised them. "I can't recover your weapon, however. My father carries it with him." "We don't care for the weapon as much as we care to take our leave from the city." said Boyce. There was silence in the room for a moment and Lehnar soon stood up. "I promise you both that I'll see what I can do!" With this Lehnar left the state-room and the two men sat back and waited. Sunset was just a couple of hours away and Lehnar had been gone since the thick of the afternoon. They were worried that she either couldn't get their supply packs or she went against them by telling her father about their plans. Regardless of their anxieties, however, they waited for her to come back to them. As the sky began to darken and the hours quickly gained speed, and Boyce and Lloyd became more restless and nervous. However, their long agitated wait was rewarded, for Lehnar had finally come back to their room with just one of their packs. The pack was Lloyd's and much of what was inside was still there. Only the telescope and its case was gone but the change of clothing and the maps were still inside. Lloyd kissed Lehnar and thanked her. Boyce had also kissed her hand. "Thank you so very much, Dam Lehnar!" gleamed Lloyd. "There are no guards at your door. I told them that I will watch you both and that you would still think that they were outside the door." she said to them. "Leave the palace through the garbage chutes and make your way in the shadows of the fire alley." "Thank-you for your help, Lehnar." Boyce said graciously and she smiled. "That alley will take you to the southern plateau and don't stop until you have reached the Divider's Ridge. My people still stop their pursuit there, if they will follow you at all." "You are as helpful as you are beautiful, Dam Lehnar!" Lloyd complimented her. "Take care, my friends!" she said, and the men made their way out of the room and down the hallway to a closet door, and they found that they inside of the closet had no floor. Lehnar came out of the room and after Boyce, and Lloyd, jumped into the hole, she closed the door behind them then went to her own room. They hit bottom in a pile of rotting fish. "This stinks!" Boyce acknowledged. They looked around themselves trying no to breathe as they saw the mouldy pieces of bread and meat and other food-stuffs that have been down there for a good lengthy time, which only God could know for certain. They exited the garbage stores and found themselves in a narrow passage with an open ceiling. This must be the fire alley that Lehnar spoke of, they thought, and bent down low, they slowly but steadily made their way down. A quarter-hour later they were at the end of the alley, and to each side of them they saw the walls of the city extending in a forbidding manner. It was very dark now and only the stars were giving the men enough light to run by.