The maid was understandably nervous, but did as she was told regardless. The moment she turned invisible and Shay opened the door, she ran for the window at the end of the hallway as though her life depended on it. Shay knew this even though she could not actually see the girl, because of the ruckus her running footsteps were making.<br/><br/>"What's that?" "I'll check it out."<br/><br/>One of the guards rose from their game and entered the hallway, looking towards the window. It was at this time that the maid jumped, hitting one of the shutters as she went. Needless to say, seeing the shutter seemingly move of its own accord caught the guard's attention. "What the-" he ran to the window and peered out, but saw nothing out of the ordinary thanks to Shay's spell.<br/><br/>"What is it, your farts finally condensing together to form an ass-gas golem?" The guard still within the quarters laughed at his own joke.<br/><br/>"Shut it," the other guard snapped, turning around and striding down the hallways with purpose. By this time Shay had already cast the spell on herself and entered the hallway herself, shutting the door behind her. She pressed against the wall, the guard walking past mere inches from her without noticing she was there. By the time he reached the door to the guest quarters, she herself was at the window already.<br/><br/>Shay fumbled her descent and hit the ground hard, but she had survived the single-storey drop still alive and conscious without crippling injury. She heard the alarmed cry of the guard coming from within the building as he tested the door and found it unlocked and the prisoner escaped. "Shit!" "What happened?" "She's gone, the bitch must have jumped out the window!" "Damn it, raise the alarm!" "We're so getting fucking fired for this..."<br/><br/>The guard ran back to the window and scanned the alleyway below. He was looking right at Shay as she crossed the alley to descend the ramp to the sewer entrance and cut off the line of sight to her, but again thanks to her spell he couldn't see a thing. Alarm bells were ringing as the two girls regrouped at the sewer access door, the invisibility spell wearing off them. "W-what do we do now?" The maid stammered as she passed the ring back to Shay.<br/><br/><br/><hr/><br/><br/>(http://i1300.photobucket.com/albums/ag94/Autocad-E/sewer_exit_by_alexlinde-d4xz30t_zps28a20e5d.jpg)<br/><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;">Seahurst Sewers</span><br/><br/>The key unlocked the entrance to the sewers as promised, and they were in.<br/><br/>The sewers of Seahurst were older than the city itself, carved out of the ruins of an ancient labyrinth. The walls and floor were made of stone, with a channel cut into the floor through which foul-smelling greenish water flowed. Occasional shafts of sunlight shining through drains provided patches of light between which darkness dominated. Rats scurried away squeaking as the humans intruded upon their grounds.<br/><br/>There was a lamp full of oil set down just beyond the entrance, too convenient to be a mere coincidence. Chalk marks on the walls guided them through twists and turns as they delved into the bowels of the city. "Psst! Over here!" The woman's voice came from around a corner. It was none other than the busty blonde from yesterday, Jasmine. Today, though, she was looking much more martial, clad in armour and with a greatword leaning against the wall beside her. If there was still something the same about her, though, it was the way her oversized melons still strained against her custom-modified breastplate.<br/><br/>"I knew you'd come," Jasmine smirked. "Are you hurt?" She laid her hands on "Titania" and channeled healing energy through them, glowing with a warm light that healed her up completely. "I'll see the girl to safety if you want to leave now. Head a few hundred feet straight down this tunnel and you'll come upon an exit sufficiently distant from the scene of the crime, so to speak. But if you want to come along, there're some people who would very much like to meet you, and I think you'd very much like to meet them as well."<br/><br/><em>(Shay is restored to full HP.)</em>