Crown of the Queen (The Wardbreaker Book 3) by Katerina Martinez

Author:Katerina Martinez [Martinez, Katerina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Supernal Publishing
Published: 2020-03-26T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Out of all of us, it was Karim who took to the acclimatization process the quickest. I had thought maybe Axel would be the first to develop an immunity to the strange power the prison had over us. We all did, especially him. He was a Psionic, after all.

But no, it was Karim who was the first to make the first exploratory push into Devil Falls, the first of us to get close to Harrowgate prison without his brain exploding.

This was both a good thing, and a bad thing. It was bad because he didn’t have any of us out there to support him should things go south. Devil Falls was a hostile place to Mages who didn’t belong, and we didn’t belong.

The good thing about Karim being able to venture near the prison, however, was not having to rely on Walter for every bit of information we were going to need. And out of all of us, he was the one that blended in with the locals best. The bar wasn’t a fluke. He was genuinely liked out here.

I had a prison break to plan, and if I wanted to pull that off, I was going to need to know everything I could about the prison itself. Who runs it, what are the guards like, what kind of security systems do we have to deal with? And those were just the mundane concerns.

Harrowgate was a prison for supernatural miscreants and criminals, the worst of us all; and supernatural problems required supernatural solutions. We had already seen one of its defensive mechanisms at work. The psychic assaults were unbearable, and crippling if you deliberately put your guard down.

But that was only one of what I suspected were many different and complex defensive measures meant to keep everyone within its walls inside, and those beyond them outside.

Karim dumped a bag of bagels on the floor in the center of the communal sleeping area we had built out of air-mattresses and sheets. Though my head was pounding, my mouth watered.

“You found bagels?” I asked.

Karim lifted his eye patch and took his beret off. “I did indeed,” he said, picking a seeded bagel up and sniffed it. “Who would’ve thought you’d find good bagels in Devil Falls?”

I chose a bagel out of the bag and bit into it without thinking twice. The bread was warm, and soft. Just how I liked it. “Didn’t I tell you?” I asked, chewing, “I knew I’d heard that somewhere.”

“I also bought painkillers. You know, to help manage those migraines you all have. We can’t expect RJ to keep every little headache at bay, can we?”

“Not when I have one of my own,” RJ said. He hadn’t gotten up from his mattress yet, and he had one arm draped around his eyes.

“You alright?” I asked him, shaking one of his legs.

“I’m good. Just need a minute to make the room stop spinning.”

“So?” I asked Karim. Around me, the others started tucking into their breakfast. “What did you find?”

“A prison,” Karim said, eyebrow cocked.

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