Firstly Kara determined to jump from the window ledge.She'd be caught sneaking a horse and that bloody damned nag of Kertyn's would wreck her chances anyway. Secondly she'd skirt the exterior castle wall by clinging to it so as, thirdly, not to slip into the black water lapping beneath her toes. Fourthly, she'd run.

It was just that she wasn't sure how well it could be done, when that crack, the one her ankle gave as she hit the ground, said that fifthly she'd be lucky. More ...