A Threat To Remain by Frances Ellen

Author:Frances Ellen [Ellen, Frances]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wolfkin BV
Published: 2021-07-20T04:00:00+00:00

The following afternoon Sky stared at his watch and sighed. It could take another five minutes, or it could take another hour, for a Disciple to come in and bring them whatever beautiful plate of food Mitrik’s chefs would serve them today.

It was two minutes to twelve o’clock.

Yesterday the Disciple had come bang on twelve. Was that just a coincidence?

Sky was leaning against the door, with his head tilted to the hatch so that he still had a view of the main entrance to the prison cells. He needed to be ready the second a Disciple would step through that veil to bring them their food. He glanced at Sophie. She was kneeling by the trapdoor, busy unscrewing the iron ring that was needed to pull the trapdoor open. Sky wondered if the other end of what that ring was attached to would be sharp enough for their plan to work.

Sophie had explained her plan to him, and Sky had to admit that what she had come up with was absolutely insane – insanely ingenious. Not in a million years would he have come up with it himself. But the way that Sophie explained the logic… and the physics; her plan might be insane, but it might just work. And it might also be their only way out of here.

“Yeah, this should do it,” Sophie said. Sky looked at his sister again to see what she had found; attached to the end of the ring to pull the trapdoor open, was a long thick screw. The end of it seemed pointy and sharp enough to inflict some serious damage. Sadly, Mitrik hadn’t been cocky enough to leave them their weapons.

The King had been cocky enough to leave that key there, though. Sky wondered why the King was so keen on continuing these games even when he wasn’t around to step in if one of them didn’t work out the way he planned. Was he really that full of himself? Sky had a really hard time placing the King—he had these moments when he almost seemed human. Then he acted like an idiot, but he wasn’t stupid. Far from it.

But the King was still an idiot.

Sky’s magic hummed through his veins. He could feel that laser focus descend upon him. He didn’t feel his hunger. The feeling of fear about Lian’s safety was muted. This was their one chance to break out of here. No other chance had come before this. It was best to focus on getting this one right.

Only having one shot should scare him; should make him cautious or nervous. But it didn’t. It excited him. This was what he was good at. Sky wasn’t the one with the brilliant plans like Sophie, or like Nathan occasionally. And he didn’t have the calm, rational energy of Matu, who could then also become utterly ruthless. No. He was the unexpected force to be reckoned with. He was that split second between control and impulse, between the calm and the storm.

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