Amid Stars and Darkness by Chani Lynn Feener

Author:Chani Lynn Feener
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends

CHAPTER 15

Of course, she had no idea where she was going. Outside of the bunker was the first of many square rooms she’d have to pass through in order to make it out. She’d managed to keep up with the first four or five turns, but that was way back at the beginning. She didn’t have to look to know the exact moment Trystan stepped up behind her; she felt him there, burning at her back like a flame. It occurred to her with a sick twist in her stomach that the members of the royal family probably all knew the way.

Was he waiting on her to show him? Obviously, as the Zane of what had for so long been a warring country, he wouldn’t have been privy to the way out. The Basileus didn’t strike her as the type of man who’d leave the well-being of his family in the hands of others, so they had to know which direction to go themselves, which doors to choose.

Which meant so would Olena.

“Lissa Olena.” A soldier she’d never seen before stepped forward, bowing his sandy-blond head. “Ander Ruckus sent me to escort you out.”

“He did?” She tried to hold back the frown but couldn’t. Why would he send someone she didn’t know? And, more important, who didn’t know her? How did he explain to this soldier that she didn’t know her way out of the maze?

“Yes, Lissa.” He bowed his head again. “He said to tell you that he’ll meet you in your chambers as soon as he’s able.”

“All right…” Crossing her arms over her chest, she indicated with a half wave that he should begin leading the way. Hopefully he’d take that as a sign she was allowing him to escort her and not that she didn’t know where she was going.

Fortunately, Trystan hadn’t said anything, though she felt him moving along with them. After a while he fell behind a few steps, but she doubted it was to give her space. Sure enough, when she risked a glance back, it was to find he’d been detained at the opening of one of the rooms.

He watched her over the shoulders of the two soldiers blocking him as she passed into another hallway and out of sight. She wasn’t sure, but he looked pissed at being held back, and she wondered what it was the Vakar soldiers could possibly want from him to risk his wrath.

“Watch your step, Lissa,” the guard leading her said, offering a hand to help her over the lip of the doorway.

“Thank you.” She walked with him toward a door on the left. “What’s your name?”

“Teller Dreadus,” he told her.

“On Earth, dread’s not exactly the best word,” she joked, smiling so that he’d know that was all it was. She was looking at him when he opened the next door, stepping through when he motioned her before him.

If she’d been paying attention, she probably would have realized something was off. Ruckus never let her walk into a room first.

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