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Aleck dove for the scarf and wrapped the rubies in it as many times as the scarf would allow.

“Come on, Spadewick,”

The dragon took a hesitating step toward aleck, but he was still unsure.

A soldier ran through the darkness towards him, and Aleck tried to use the power of the rubies on him. He couldn’t get it to work. Aleck shrugged, stuck the scarf and rubies under his arm, and attacked the soldier with his arm. A sword clipped Aleck’s shoulder from behind, but then it fell as the man crumpled from a backwards kick. Aleck knocked the other man to the ground, and immediately regretted it. If Spadewick thought he was about to die, he would come and save him. He had to let the soldiers overpower him. The next round was made up of four soldiers. Aleck fell to the ground before the first man’s sword even hit him.

The man stepped over him while two of the others held Aleck down. The man readied himself and brought his sword down. Spadewick was taking too long!

The man was dead on the ground, and Spadewick’s eager face filled the place where he had stood. He blasted flame at the other two, and tripped the last of that group with his tail. Aleck scrambled onto Spadewick’s back.

“Fly, Spadewick, fly!”

Spadewick lifted off the ground and smashed into the ceiling.

“I meant flee.” Aleck laughed nervously. “But first get the others. Actually, no. We can’t. There’s soldiers with bows there. We’ll never escape. They’ll have to understand. I hate having to do this, but this was the plan all along, ‘Get their help with getting the rubies, and then claim them for yourself. I never thought that it would be so hard, that I’d become such friends with them.’ Sorry, Spadewick. Ignore that. Just get me out of here back the way we came, into that museum room.”

Spadewick started to run through the darkness in the direction Aleck had pointed him in. An arrow whistled past Aleck followed by another. Shouts filled the darkness as dozens of well-equipped soldiers streamed into the darkness behind them. That’s when Spadewick really ran.

Sorry, @andrew, @kari-karast, @everyone. Sorry for abandoning you all, but that’s what Aleck would do. Blame him.