Chapter 11: The Queen of AshesThe corridor to the chapel felt twice as long and four times as dark as it normally did. It reminded Tarquin very much of the forest: the anxious, awful quiet right before Gretta had said, Did you hear that? And everything had gone to the seven hells.
Five stopped, head tilting. Before Tarquin could even ask what it was, Five grabbed his and Prea’s wrists and pulled both of them into a run.
A second later Tarquin heard a sound like a battering ram and he glanced behind him in time to see a huge, sickly gray foot kick out part of the corridor wall.
The three of them burst through the door to the chapel and Five whirled and slammed it shut, bracing it with all his strength. Tarquin and Prea lifted the heavy bar from its narrow alcove and slapped it across the
