Seventeen
Rahab followed Thomas across the dark, stuffy corridor when they finally stepped out into the city. She looked around, still unable to accept that this was real. Those houses carved out of the cave, those masses of people… hidden here under the ground, waiting to come out when doom’s day arrived. But what was their plan exactly? And how did it involve the prophecy?
Thomas saw her amazement and did not even bother hiding his satisfaction. He was proud of being a part of this; no, proud of being one a leader. He had worked his way up, his men respected him and feared him, she had seen it in their faces. But he would never be an equal to Sena. For this, he was too easily infuriated, too unrestrained. Sena was the man she admired and feared most, as did all of them.
“Do you really
