Editing Stranded in fantasy (section)

==Journal Entry 285==

We spent hours going through that damned castle.  It had been ransacked pretty hard already.  Probably during the city's civil war.  After a few hours, we finally just gave up and hung around the throne room for awhile.  The throne had been destroyed for whatever reason.  I don't remember it being covered in anything valuable so maybe it was in spite.  Anyways, after a few minutes, Jason says he sees something and goes over and starts playing with one of the back walls.  Sure enough, there's a click and a hidden door pops open.  Okay, we figure it's an emergency escape exit for the king.  We grab our lights and head in.  Well, the stairs go up, so it's not an emergency exit.  We end up on the fourth floor in a room with no other doors but a few small window vents too small to crawl through.  The floor of the room has a massive ritual circle painted on it and what's more important, a portal sitting in the middle of it.  Unfortunately it wasn't a portal home.  It looked like it exited out into a forest.  Alex said it looked stable enough.  We tied some rope to a chair in the room and tossed it through to make sure it wasn't going to dissipate immediately and that we could return through it.  We drew straws and I lost, so I got to go through first.  Sure enough, there was a portal on the other side so we could return easy enough.  The portal exited out into a forest clearing.  The whole clearing was in another ritual circle.  Jason says it's an invisibility field, Alex thought it was some kind of repulsion field.  What's more important though, was what was in the middle of the clearing.  A small airship just sitting there with the Winterfield royal seal painted on the side.  This was in fact an escape route.  A way to leave the kingdom.  One that must of cost a damn fortune to build.  We had an emergency team meeting.  We still need the consensus of the others but as far as the rest of us are concerned, we're going to graciously accept this gift for the loss of both sets of our horses and saving the city.