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You put on the crash helmet and mount the bike. It is a Suzuki. You hang on to Caroline for dear life as the bike roars into action and screeches past Maya and Highgraves (who is now sitting down by the side of the road and brokenly mumbling something about the dangers of always believing that one is indestuctible). You head East until you reach a crossroads, at which point Caroline turns a hard right, onto a street that heads South, and then begins to curve South-West. You speed past various buildings on either side, too quickly for you to pick them out of a general blur, until Caroline slows a little and you see, on your right, at the South end of a block, the Dancing Bear Inn.
You are riding through the Square, heading South. Caroline stops the bike, slides up the visor of her crash helmet and yells "Open up!"
The Guard on top of the Gate looks up from his very bad comics, and then stumbles into action, turning a large wheel at the top of the Wall, which in turn causes the Gate to swing open.
As soon as there's a gap barely wide enough for the bike to fit through, Caroline guns the engine and you go zooming into the jungle.
After you've been riding along the track for a few minutes, you start to smell burning rubber. Caroline stops the bike, gets off and crouches down to examine the smoking front wheel of the bike.
"Tyre's on fire", she says, nonchalantly. She waves away the smoke, and you step off the bike to examine the wheel with her. It looks pretty ruined. "There's a place South of here where we can get a replacement. Do you want to go, or stay here and watch the bike?" |
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