THREE
Escape
‘Let us out of here!’ she cried angrily once more.
For three cycles – by her count at least – they had been ensconced in the chamber, unable to leave. Their only visitors had been Mirielle’s house guards, tasked with watching over them – for their own protection, or so they had been informed. The guards unlocked the chamber’s heavy wooden door several times each cycle, primarily to offer them food and empty the toilet bucket provided for them. Although they had been treated well neither of them was allowed to leave the room, as decreed by the Queen. According to the guards, The Blades had yet to apprehend the rogue shaper Krashnar, the returned exile responsible for the release of Ricknar and the heinous mutilation of both Cora and her released mother, Hanarah. To sate his
