Chapter SixHe could hear them coming from quite a distance. The footsteps echoed
against the narrow shaft that led to his cell. The three doors were being
unlocked, creaking and groaning as they were pushed open.
His heart was aflutter already. He'd made up his mind and was ready to
leave this place. Here arrived his way out.
"You returned," he said, as his visitor appeared inside the dark cell.
Rhea looked every bit as appealing as she had the first time around. He
approached her with a smile on his face.
"We have unfinished business," she said.
Saras nodded. "Where is your charming companion? The queen was not in the
mood for another trip down into the bowels of the castle?"
Rhea shook her head. Her expression was so serious, so stern. "She isn't
needed for this."
"Oh?" Sara
