Chapter Twenty-Two
Ricki glanced around her the next morning, taking in the beauty of the underground city. They had learned last night that Lyna and the others were direct descendants of the original workers who built the maze. They had split into two groups centuries ago: those that would eventually become part of Manderlin’s people, and those that became the ghosts of the Eastern Mountains.
“A member of my family has been the Keeper since the first Empress left here,” Lyna was explaining as she walked through the city. “It has been our responsibility to protect the maze and the vault until the Empress of Elpidios returned.”
Ricki had discovered that almost sixty families lived in the underground city at any given time. She also learned that many of them left for a period of time when
