...style="font-size: 10pt; color: #333333; font-family: Arial;">"There's also a beargirl?"

" --!" His face numbing, Borysko swallowed his bellow, tried instead, "Tell you, Man, if you let me in."

Sensing the trick, the old gateman smirked -- suddenly shut the grate on Borysko's face.

Staggered, and half his face feeling dead already, the one-time safeguard of a troublesome apprentice mage bellowed at the shut gate, the high Academy wall -- "TELL MADAME! -- GATEMAN!"

The grate opened, just for the old man's reply: "SHHHH! Uh'will. Now Good Night."