"We are safe now," Helene promised. As if to back them up, the whole square was suffused with a soft, opalescent glow, and they found themselves suddenly back on the street from whence they'd came.

They had made it through the twisted game--and come out...well, physically unharmed, at least. Even if Aruna seemed badly shaken, Helene counted that as a positive.

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