do “Don’t listen to him,” Sarah said, touching Mitra’s arm. “But he isn’t wrong. I don’t know what they are but they’re not human.” She shuddered.
Mitra didn’t want to confirm how right she was, so she asked, “Why are they keeping us in here instead of just killing us right away?”
“We’re part of a sacrifice,” Nick spit out. “But their leader likes to…play with us before they kill us. They use their magic to drive us mad before slitting our necks and wrists and tossing us in the river.”
Despite the heat, Mitra shivered. This was exactly what she had been afraid of. How could she have been so stupid? She was the one who urged Haris to go looking for the ubir, and now he could very well be dead. She didn’t dare think about that too long, focusing instead on the hot anger that she had burie
