Dorothy had left the small sitting room about ten minutes after the Wizard did. She returned to the hotel, where Bo had been seated on the couch in the sitting area as he waited for her return. She didn't say a word as she entered, and quickly walked off to her room before he even had the chance to open his mouth and say something.

She was no longer crying. She had seen this coming for weeks now. But the Wizard and all of the things he had said... she had not seen it coming, not even the bit about how the people of Oz were beginning to basically worship her.
Dorothy did not want to be an idol, and she did not want a part in the Wizard's games.

She stuffed her bag with all of her clothes and supplies, and slammed the bag on top of her bed to zip it shut. Once she did that, she swung the bag onto her shoulders and walked over to activate Effigy and Toto. She was going to take them with her.

There was a light knock on the door.

"Who is it?" Dorothy huffed, even though she knew that it could only be Bo-- Luav had left the hotel night before and he hadn't returned.

"Me," Bo replied gruffly. "Can I come in? Are you alright?"

"Sure," Dorothy said, rolling her eyes a bit in frustration as Effigy beeped on.

"Hello Dorothy, how may I assist you?" she asked. Ever since she had been connected to the network and been given a memory chip, she functioned a hundred times better than she had when Dorothy had first found her, and she had become more of a help than a nuisance.
Bo opened the door and stepped in.

"What happened when you were with that--"

"I don't want to talk about it," Dorothy cut in quickly, her eyebrows knitted together as she threw the  wrinkled covers across the bed. "And please don't say those words, even about him."

"Fine. Why are you leaving?" Bo asked, his gaze sweeping across the room and towards the backpack straps and then the actual bag part slightly peeking out from her shoulders.

"I can't stay here. I can't just stay here knowing that there's a tyrant leading this planet. I can't stay here knowing that he knows everything about me when I know nothing about myself. I have to do something about him--"

"Shh! Lower your voice, Gale," Bo hissed suddenly. "I know just the place to go. I'll go with you."

"You will? You do?" Dorothy asked in a whisper.

He nodded. "I have to go get my things together. But we can't leave until late tonight, alright? Nobody can know that we're leaving."

Dorothy nodded solemnly.

"We'll go after midnight," Bo said.

"Alright. Where will we be going?"

"I can't tell you that yet, okay? But it's somewhere we've both been to before, before we even got to the City."

Dorothy nodded as he left the room, thinking. Somewhere they had been to before...

She nearly smiled. So that's where they would be going...

                    ***

They made sure that they had everything they needed-- food, blankets, clothes, tools, and everything in between.

They sat in the living room, watching and waiting for the time to go by.

To Dorothy, the hours felt endless, and the minutes felt like days. She even got up and began to pace the floor to see if that would make time seem to go by faster, until Bo told her to stop because the people below might realize that something was up or something was wrong, and they didn't want or need anyone coming up to their room to see what they were up to.

So, Dorothy sat back down and tried not to fidget too much as they continued to wait.
Finally, they heard the twelve dings and chimes as the clock tower in the distance struck midnight.

Bo quietly motioned for her to grab her things and go get Toto and Effigy. She nodded and went off to her room to do that, making sure that Effigy and Toto were on their silent modes once she had activated them.

The Emerald City was now sleeping, but they were wide awake.

They descended the back stairs of the hotel and left by an 'employees only' exit.

Bo glanced at Dorothy and whispered, "If all else fails, use that old honing device of the Witch's and summon the monkeys."

Immediately, Dorothy reached up to her left ear, where the honing device was still in place. She nodded, and they set off down the back alley.

"I know of an exit out of the city that I suspect that the Wizard probably doesn't know about," Bo whispered. "It shouldn't be too far from here, I promise."

Dorothy nodded again, and they began to walk quickly and quietly down to the exit of the alleyway.

They walked for about thirty minutes, taking several lefts and rights and going all over the place. Finally, Bo spotted exactly what he must have been talking about, for he pointed to the end of an alleyway where there was a faded poster with mice in frilly skirts with music notes around them painted on it close to the entryway of it.

"Just towards the end here," he whispered. He cast a nervous looking glance over his left shoulder. Dorothy was on his right, and she glanced back as well.

Bo gave a shake of his head. "Come on." He gestured for her to follow and he headed down. She followed him quickly, Toto and Effigy on her heels as they always were.

Bo crouched down and quickly pulled up the lid to an apparent sewer entryway and slid it halfway across the hole.

"It's not a sewer in there, I promise," Bo told Dorothy quickly as she wrinkled her nose in disgust. "You and Effigy can go in first. I'll help Toto down in there and close the lid, okay?"

She nodded and crouched down, hesitantly lowering her feet into the hole. She let herself drop into it.

She landed on cement at the bottom in a crouch position, then Effigy landed inside as well. It was a long tunnel that appeared, even in the darkness, to stretch for miles and miles.
Which, was frankly, more daunting than even the darkest parts of the forest where the yellow brick road had lead them had been.

"On my way down. Watch out," Bo whispered quickly as he dangled his feet down.

Dorothy nodded and took a few steps back, pulling Effigy back with her.

Then Bo dropped down into the tunnel, his arms wrapped tightly around Toto. He set the robotic dog down and pulled the lid back over the hole.

He glanced over at Dorothy as Toto wagged his little tail.

"Let's roll," he said, pointing to the lengthy stretch of tunnel.

"It doesn't look like it leads just out of the city..." Dorothy commented as they began to walk to through the tunnels.

"It leads all the way to headquarters, technically. Except there's roadblocks only certain people can get through. I don't have the clearance for that. However, there is an exit just outside of the city where we can get out. The builders took extra precautions so that if it were to be found by the wrong people they would just come to a dead end, and they wouldn't discover where it really leads to," Bo explained, using hand motions with flare and animation, which were illuminated by Toto's nose light.

Dorothy nodded. "That makes sense," she said.

"Yeah, it really does. Though they they're bad at making names, I have to admit that they're pretty good at architecture, engineering, and strategy. All they need is a stronger rallying point and they're good to go with the whole revolution."

"But they didn't even free the other Munchkins from their bondage," Dorothy said, "They didn't free them from Malideena."

"There's kind of a good reason for that," Bo said, narrowing his eyes slightly in the dim light.

"Ah," Dorothy said with a short nod.

Bo nodded back at her and they continued to walk the way down the tunnel in complete silence. Dorothy calculated things in her head slightly. They had been walking for about five to ten minutes now, and it took about thirty minutes to leave the city by foot. Since they wouldn't have to wait on traffic or any obstructions in their path, they would be out in twenty to twenty-five minutes or so...

And they would be on their way.