Chapter Thirty-One
Time stretched out and Quinn drifted off to sleep a couple of times as she waited for whoever was in the treasure room to leave. What were they doing? She would have loved to have been able to open the door slightly and peer through at them. A new noise could be heard and she realised it was the sound of coins being poured into something. She strained to hear anything else, but everything was silent on the other side.
She continued to listen carefully, but nothing else could be heard. Had they left? She counted to a hundred. Was that enough time? She counted to five hundred. Surely she’d waited long enough.
Rising to her feet, she ran her hand over the door, searching for the mechanism to open it. Finding it, she activated it and the door started to swing open. She gr
