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It wasn’t as easy as I thought it would be.
The hallucinations didn’t come immediately, and when I tried lowering my shield and contacting Damara, she didn’t answer.
There was someone else I could contact though. I closed my eyes and sent my magic out to search for Theron’s mind. But my magic bounced off the walls like a ball. This room must have a barrier against that too, so prisoners wouldn’t be able to communicate with anyone outside.
A shudder coursed through my body.
Prisoners. Besides the heart maidens, how many people had been wrongly accused by the elder council? How many had been killed? I couldn’t begin to understand how evil they were or why. Why were they doing this?
I barely slept through the night because of the pain and the panic I felt, which only increased when Va
