Halt quickly went back to the stables, but instead of where Horace though he was going to go, he went around to the back.
'What are we going here?' Horace asked.
'What do you think?' Halt replied and didn't say anymore, no matter how much Horace kept on pestering him, he didn't say anything.
Suddenly, Halt pushed something and the whole of the back the the stable room swung open and he led his horse into the tunnel. Horace hesitated before going in after Halt.
'There are only huge man eating spiders down here and anyway, I think you could take care of anything bigger,' Halt explained.
'Good to see the amount of confidence you have with me,' Horace said and went into the tunnel as well.
Halt just smiled grimly.
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Crowley swore as he walked down the corridor. The idiot Marvin had just come in and had tested positive for being insane, without even mentioning anything that Will did.
(And they were now down three Rangers and the next lot didn't come through for three years.)
He stopped and looked at the wall next to him. For a little while, Crowley contemplated punching it, but then he decided against it. Instead he banged his head against it.
I wont send anyone else, Crowley thought. I can't risk losing any more Rangers right now.
As it was he would already have to reorganise where some of them were stationed.
It was time for an emergency meeting.
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Pauline looked away from her group of new apprentices. Most of them would drop out in the next few weeks and some of them would be told to drop out. But that wasn't what was bothering her.
Somewhere inside of her, the six sense that she seemed to posses was yelling at her that Halt had just done something extremely stupid. And there was no way of know what it was until everything had all blown over.
Or she got a letter from Will or Crowley.