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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mallak" data-source="post: 3295589" data-attributes="member: 37105">Grondar and the ladies enter the alley to the right of the house and follow it back to where it intersects another alley."There's the gate there," says Karen, pointing to the left where a small gate is inset into the back of the wall.  Marcia takes a key from Trudy.  She unlocks the gate with a faint click, but when she attempts to push it open it only rattles a bit.  Marcia swears under her breath."Barred from the other side.  Where's the trust?""Grondar, can you think of a way to open it?"Behind them in the alley from which they just came, Grondar hears a cat yowl and a soft curse in a male voice.  He glances back and catches a dark shadow ducking in to a doorway in the wall of the neighboring house.  Karen jumps at the sound, and Marcia peers back the way they came."What was that?"</blockquote>