Chapter 55
Madeline jumped out from the last layer of steel doors, and Moira slumped to the floor. She was no more than a pile of bloody clothes. Madeline knew there couldn’t be a bone in Moira’s body that wasn’t broken. She helped Moira up so they could head toward the main chamber, and they heard the faint sounds of a scuffle.
Madeline and Moira arrived at the main chamber to find two identical versions of Ciaran fighting.
Now everything made perfect sense to Madeline—the planting of Sizx into their journey, the red herrings, the plotted attacks, and the sorcery tricks to pull information from Ciaran’s mind. All of it was to get as much information about Ciaran as possible so that Hoyt could slide into his skin and become the king. He would deal with the aftermath later. What a perfec
