"Chace, what's happening? Why are you being like this?" Francine croaked out, snapping me out of my thoughts. "My name is Austin," I gritted, "and I'm being like this because this is your fault. I gave you guys one job and you messed it up so bad you're not allowed back at the castle! Now I'm here, s**t out of luck. So I'm pissed. Is that good enough for you, Francine?" "It's not our fault, we-" "Shut up, Mark, I wasn't talking to you," I snapped.He shut up pretty quick, his heartbeat picking up again.I didn't like that I didn't have a plan as of yet. I didn't like that my people were over there dying. We were losing this war. Everything had completely flipped over and if I didn't come up with something soon, I'd lose everything, Phoveous was the key to everything and they took him fr

