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Basil hid in the shadows in the courtyard. There was no movement inside the Black Order’s fortress and it was so quiet, his breathing pounded in his ears. He walked under an arch and something brushed against his foot. A rat scurried through a hole in the wooden door to his left. It led to the prison cells where he and the others were once held when they first found the Black Order and were searching for Celadine. Now all he had to do was get through the maze of twists and turns that led to the ballroom without getting caught. Sepitus would stop at nothing to make the death stone complete. If he lost his stone, like Birdie, that would be the end of him. His friends needed him, but more importantly, he needed to do it for his sister.
Why had she been so stubborn? And what was it about
