Ned grabbed Beard around the wrist. "We need to leave ... NOW!"

They ran out of the front door of the Armory house, through the front yard, into the main square and forward to the Southern entrance of Beer town. Ned began knocking on the door hard and shaking it vigorously, causing the chains to rattle. "This is not good," said Ned in a scared tone. "The guards locked the town from the outside."
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