I SEARCHED EVERY CREVICE of our dungeon for a way of escape.
“I’ve already explored all the options, Megara. The practical and the magical,” Fiore said from where he lay on his bare bunk.
“I’m sure you have,” I said to him from my hands and knees near the old skeleton. “But I can’t just sit here and wait for help, or our execution. I need to do something!”
I kept looking and feeling with my hands.
The door was locked, and there was no way of dislodging the bars or the lock.
I checked every brick in the walls. Not a single one loosened.
And even if they had, there was nothing but dirt behind them, anyway. After an hour or two of searching for a way out of this hell hole, I collapsed onto the floor, dejected and disappointed.
“This cannot be the end for us. My friends will notice I’m
