Then one of the women advanced slightly ahead of the others, carrying a flag of truce, and both sides stopped firing. "Free our queen," she called. "Otherwise we shall raze your castle to the ground." "Raise it to the ground?" asked Jim, confused. "Did you think it was underground?" "R-A-Z-E," the woman spelt out. "You have one hour. Then we return to the attack."
Jim called down to Sharon in the courtyard below and behind him. "What should I do? If I take off the ring, with any luck we will be transported away, but then it looks as though there would be a bloody battle, since I can't see that army accepting that you were no longer here." Sharon replied:
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