Ironhollow 31

Scaling the inner wall turned out to be harder than it had looked for the four girls.
Paisley had grabbed a heavy length of rope in the prison, and now she was twisting it nervously in her hands, gazing up at the high inner wall.
"It's at least thirty, maybe forty feet high." Arden noted, "But I'm probably not helping, am I?"
Everyone agreed.
Poppy took a deep breath, and said, "Listen, they have archer's windows along the top wall, before thy demolished the ladders to the ledges, archers used them to fend off long range attacks, so we just need to find an archer's port along the top wall, then we can throw our rope up, wrapping the rope around the window, grappling hook style, then we can climb up onto the ledge."
Everyone seemed to be okay with this, so Poppy picked up a heavy rock from the ground, and tied it securely to the rope.
Victoria accepted the rope from Poppy, and she swung it confidently. She let it fly towards the window. It came up a few inches short, and Victoria narrowed her eyes as the rope fell back down to earth.
She grabbed it midair, and swung it up again. This time, it hooked securely around the window ledge, and Victoria immediately started scaling along the stone wall.
The three girls still with their feet on the ground called up nervous encouragements.
As soon as she reached the ledge, she perched on the space, which couldn't have been more than a foot.
"Okay, everybody come up and then will throw the rope over the other side and we'll climb down!"
Paisley went next, then Arden, and finally Poppy.
They crowded the tiny ledge, and it took a few minutes to swing the rope over the other side.
They climbed down, Poppy first, then Victoria, Paisley and Arden.
Finally, they landed on the soft grass of the valley separating the inner wall and the outer wall.
Arden sighed, saying, "Come one, we'll find somewhere to camp for the night, then we'll find somewhere to get out of this place."