QUEEN AQUAMARINE’S POV
The vines had loosened while I slept, curling like lazy snakes across my arms. My wrists were sore, but no longer held.
“Did you sleep well?” Terran's voice rang in my ears. He asked like this was normal. Like I hadn’t been kidnapped and held in a forest.
I didn’t answer. Instead, I stood up slowly.
Then everything stopped, there was a sudden opening in the space we were locked in. Then it opened up totally.
We stood before a massive structure so twisted, so unnatural, I almost didn’t see it as a castle. But it was. A fortress made of thorns and vines.
Terran stepped out first, holding out his hand like this was some twisted royal arrival.
But I didn’t touch him.
Before I knew it, I was dangling over his shoulder. Kicking and punching him, but it did nothin
