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she wasn’t on record for the spell. I hoped Corbin had more luck because I was SOL. We knew for sure someone had put portals in at least two of the universes, and likely in all four. This alone meant the games were compromised. We now knew one portal went to the council headquarters and one to Mab’s castle. Finally, familiars were placed in at least two of the universes, and again probably in all of them. We needed to figure this out in the next seventy-two hours or cancel the games.
    I transported us back to the Four-Courts, and we went looking for Traygen and Tokem. We found them in the conference room discussing the surveillance equipment they’d just installed. I took the opportunity to find Posin to see if he could shed light on any of this. I found him in the production room with the other designers, and let him know I needed to speak to him. He followed me out into the hall.
    “I have a couple questions for you. We’ve discovered a few things I was hoping you could explain.”
    “If I can. What did you want to know?”
    “Are there any portals built into your universes?”
    “Yes, we put one in each universe as an emergency exit in case we needed to remove an injured competitor or to recover a body.”
    “And you didn’t think it worth mentioning? Who else knows about these exits?”
    “Just myself and Queen Aerlene’s wizard.”
    “I want the coordinates and runes for all the portals, and need to know where each portal exits.”
    “They lead to Queen Aerlene’s castle. I’ll get you the portals.”
    He left to get the coordinates and runes. The two we found didn’t exit into this building, which meant those were not the design teams’, or if they were, they’d been altered. The runes would tell me if they were designed by the same wizard. He returned and gave me what I needed, and I headed back to the conference room. We would need to find these portals and see where they took us. I had a bad feeling about this. I went to my office to compare the runes to the ones I’d already found. I couldn’t believe what I saw.
    I teleported back to the conference room and everyone was present. I filled them in on what I’d found.
    “So are the runes the same?” Tokem asked.
    “Before I answer any questions about the runes I want to check out the other portals. Corbin, I need you to go see Queen Aerlene again. See if you can get her to open up a little more. She has to know something. Tokem, I need you to monitor the surveillance screens. Traygen and I will check out the portals and see where they take us. Questions? Then let’s get going.”
    Traygen and I went to put on dark clothes, boots, and weapons. We couldn’t be sure where we would end up. I was going to have us teleport from the Four-Courts to each of the respective universes. This way we wouldn’t need to leave this building to access them, at least in theory. Once we were armed, we made our way down into the lower floors where Posin said they were located. I found the portals where he had indicated they were placed.
    “We may as well go in order.”
    Traygen and I walked over to the entrance for the first universe and I spoke the words. In an instant, we were deep in the rainforest. I couldn’t tell from the ground where we were. It didn’t matter; it told me what I already knew. The portal didn’t take us to the council basement. We moved efficiently through all the remaining universes and none took us anywhere except the universes themselves. They didn’t connect to the council basement or Mab’s castle. All we knew for sure was the two gateways we found earlier weren’t the ones built by the design team. We finished and went back to the conference room. Traygen went to check on Tokem and I sat down to compare the characters from the designer’s to the characters we found. Corbin still wasn’t back from Queen Aerlene’s.
    I looked at all the runes side by side and knew the design teams’ weren’t an exact match. Yet, they had