I had to keep moving – for him, for Avery. The last words we’d ever spoken to each other were here, right here.Īnd all I’d said, like the terrible brat I’d been, was, Whatever, Ave. Please don’t tell me I’ve fallen in love with a coward.
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Stumbling into the wall, I blinked to realise that I had been here before – I’d leant against this exact patch of wall. I didn’t have it in me to harm a servant, not an innocent one. Our eyes met and I knew I had to stop her from running, but instead I just waited for her to leave. Lost, I began to despair – the dark stone corridors all looked the same to my addled mind.Ī young female servant collided with me and stared. Still dizzy from my beating, I struggled to sneak through the hallways. He had an axe on him, too big for me to wield, so I stole his bow and arrows instead, even though this would probably be just as futile. At last, I managed to reach the keys and let myself out. Sighing in frustration I grabbed the edge of his pants and painstakingly dragged him towards me, my fingers aching. I could see the bulge of them in his pocket, but couldn’t reach them through the bars. Now all I had to do was get the keys from him. He was knocked out cold and slumped to the ground. Ignoring all the pain in my body, I leapt up and grabbed his neck, pulling it straight into the bars. ‘What?’ he snapped angrily, moving up to the bars. I said something very softly under my breath. So shut your damn mouth.’ He’d unwittingly walked a few steps closer to me. ‘You get one cup of water a day, and that isn’t until the morning.
I could have killed him just for that stupid chuckle. ‘What’s wrong, kid? Sick of that cell?’ He chuckled. There was a guard at the entrance to the dungeons. It was all my fault, every broken piece of this. Searching the sky, I couldn’t see Ava, and I knew it must be my fault. I would lose Thorne, and I would lose Ava, just as I had lost Da – by my own hand – and all because I wasn’t strong enough to face the evil that was my ma. But that wasn’t true, was it? I was small, the smallest thing in this world, incapable of anything of worth.
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