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the corridor. They stopped, openmouthed. Then one remembered himself sufficiently to raise his crossbow and fire.
The dragon's chest heaved. The quarrel exploded into flaming fragments in mid-air. The guards scurried out of sight. A Light filtered through dimly from various shafts and, here and there, bounced off big mirrors that had been mortared into angles of the passagefraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing.Twoflower looked up in admiration"Can you fly too?" he said.Of course.Twoflower glanced up and down the corridor, and decided against following the guards. Since he knew himself to be totally lost already, any direction was probably an improvement. He edged past the dragon and hurried away, the huge beast turning with difficulty to follow him.They padded down a series of passages that crisscrossed like a maze. At one point Twoflower thought he heard shouts, a long way behind them but they soon faded away. Sometimes the dark arch of a crumbling doorway loomed past them in the gloom.
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