Arcane Witch's Powers: Short Stories - Witch's Cursed Circle Series by Evelyn Cooper

Author:Evelyn Cooper [Cooper, Evelyn]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Evelyn Cooper
Published: 2020-04-21T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

Moonlight Lake

The quiet butler quickly led me through halls and corridors. Eventually, we came down the stairs leading to the basement.

Zoren twisted the key in the knob of a metal door standing in front of us. Despite how heavy it looked, it made no sound when my current companion opened it. He gestured for me to come in with a slight bow. The darkness looming inside the room set engulfed me, and fear took root inside my heart.

Something wasn’t right. I could feel it in my slowly healing gut

“It is motion-activated, Ms. Alwyn. The lights will turn on once you get inside,” Zoren explained, correctly reading the look of horror in my face. It wasn’t the perfect explanation, but it was enough to get me moving. The lights turned on when I stepped inside, and for a moment, I felt relieved. The room was empty, but there was a passage that led to what looked like a dungeon.

My guide passed by me then proceeded to walk ahead of me as he turned on the flashlight. I hadn’t noticed he had until just now. The narrow passage was dark. The lights in the room turned off immediately as we got inside the pathway with aged bricks as walls and a cement floor.

“You mustn’t panic. This place will not eat you.”

They always knew exactly what not to say.

“I understand that you’re scared. But this place is your sanctuary. It is, in fact, home to you,” he continued to walk forward without sparing me a glance yet somehow, his words were comforting.

A home?

Something about that felt oddly comforting to me. I didn’t question the possibility of it being false. I had felt a strange connection all day.

“Where are we going?” my voice bounced off the narrow walls.

“We’re going out,” he briefly answered.

Another explosion.

The place shook with stones and dust falling to the ground on impact.

Zoren, continued to walk, brushing away dust that hadn’t yet settled on him, from his shoulders.

The passage led to a room with stairs with only a brick wall atop and a lever.

Once we passed the doorway, Zoren pulled a door from the side and locked the latch on it, blocking it entirely. Even though he seems unbothered, he’s relatively cautious, and this somehow makes me feel more secure.

He led the way climbing through the stairs then pulled down the lever once we reached the top.

The wall moved and slid to the side, revealing a secret door leading to another dark room.

The room was small enough to fit five people. At the end of it, was a ladder, which was illuminated by moonlight seeping through a tiny hole in the trap door above it.

The rich sure love their underground passages and secret doors.

He climbed the metal ladder waiting with an incredible speed that didn’t reflect his age, despite his grey hair. At the top of the ladder, he unchained the trap door from a latch and pushed it open.

Not having any other options, I climbed the ladder cringing at the echo of clanking metal in the distance.

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