CASSANDRA
My heart pounded in my chest as I stared at the bottle. My hands began to shake so hard that for a moment, I nearly slipped and dropped the container on the ground.
Were all of these bottles full of poison?
Did someone raise these vipers here?
Everything was so strange and confusing and my mind began to drown in the possibilities.
Just as I started to steady myself, I heard something move behind me. I started to turn around, but I was shoved forward before I could. A cry rose up from my chest, and when I whipped around, a tall, dark figure stood behind me.
The light down here was too dim to make out his features, and even if I could, he was moving far too quickly for me to recognize him.
The man lunged at me, and suddenly, my mask was knocked off and crashed to the floor.
