I wasn’t sure if I slept even a minute that night.
Whether it was anticipation, fear, or hope that kept me awake, I couldn’t tell, but one of them held my eyes open as I stared at the bars I was supposed to break. I stayed like that until the faint warmth of morning leaked through the cracks in the stone.
Everyone else seemed asleep—or at least that’s what their steady heartbeats suggested. Then again, with strange powers like theirs, for all I knew they could control even that. Still, I lay on the floor for another moment, forcing myself to remember why I was doing this at all, why I had to try, even if the chances were barely there.
“I’ll make it back to you… if I can just get out of here, Robin,” I whispered before finally sitting up.
“You’re up early,” Lucian’s voice sounded, and I
