More Nehogans poured into the courtyard, summoned telepathically by the Anolyn. Then Reiloc and Tabak were crowding beside him.
"The city gates!" Jupiter barked. "We've got to reach them before dawn!"
"This way," Tabak cried. She plunged into a passage leading from the court.
"Not so fast," Jupiter grunted. "I can't keep up in this damned suit."
The Caligan girl slowed down. Behind them the pandemonium from the breeding pens became fainter and died away. Reiloc, pounding along at Jupiter's elbow, said:
"Has the city been attacked?"
"No. Sun up. We've got to open the main gate."
They burst from the temple into the street. The guard at the entrance was caught flatfooted. Reiloc laid him out with a blow of his sword, and they ran on down a strangely deserted street.
"Where's everybody?" Jupiter panted.
Tabak said over her shoulder. "There's only a skeleton force in the city. Most of the Nehogans were in the army they sent after us."