“Chaos will be with me. And freeing Gadon won’t work otherwise.” Callum looked her in the eye and hoped she could see that he wasn’t going to back down. “Trust me.”
Gabi nodded once. Then, with a quick smile at him, she slid through the door, the tread of her boots so soft that after two steps, he could no longer make them out over Drew’s giggles and the growl of the chaos elemental. He counted to ten — one one thousand, two one thousand, three one thousand — and then flung open the door as wide as it would go.
“Hey, Drew,” Callum said, plastering on a grin. “This sure doesn’t look like pony school to me.”
Drew jerked back so hard in surprise that he hauled on the chain, yanking Gadon several feet up. Gadon yelled out in pain, making Chaos growl.
“Callum?” said Drew in disbelief, and C
