Loose Kanin: Book 2 of Glass Kanin by Kia Leep

Author:Kia Leep [Leep, Kia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pulsar Publishing LLC
Published: 2025-03-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter twenty-six

Fly in a Web

The mage’s gaze darts around as he squints for the source of my voice. At least that means my spell is working. I try to relax, although given the spiders, magic web, and maybe-insane wizard just on the other side of the barrier who would likely not hesitate to hurt me again should he escape, I am not terribly reassured.

Unlike Ossina, Raz is conscious, the spider-helmet half melted on the floor beside him. Looks like Yedzaquib’s attempt to harvest his knowledge is experiencing a setback.

“It is the fire mage from before,” I tell Zyneth. “Raz.”

The mage’s eyes focus in on my area as I speak, and he leans forward with a frown. “What game is this? Have you sent some other creation to torment me, Spider?”

He thinks I’m one of Yedzaquib’s sentries. I’m not sure if that puts me in a more or less dangerous position.

And despite my previous insistence on freeing the prisoners, I am suddenly less certain if Raz also falls in that group. Do I think he deserves to have his brain drained by a giant arachnoid until he’s sent into a coma? No. Do I want to be anywhere near him as a free man? Also no.

“Ignore him,” Zyneth says. “We’ll deal with them later. Do you see the arcana crystals?”

Raz stands up, stepping to the edge of his field as he cranes his head toward Zyneth’s voice. “Intruders? You play a dangerous game.” Psh, yeah, he’s one to talk. “Yedzaquib likely already knows you’re here. Help me out of this foul nest and I can make sure we all escape.”

Zyneth ignores him. “There’s six other cells I can make out from here—a smaller one is two more down from you. That might be it.”

“You are already trapped,” Raz yells as I start to pick my way from the raving mage. “You don’t even realize you are already in his web! But I can help. I can create a distraction. An escape route. Lend me your aid!”

When neither of us reply, he sits back down in a huff and snatches up the half melted spider sentry from the floor. He crooks a hand over the object, and red magic begins to flicker into the spider like an inverted flame. I don’t know what he’s planning, but I’m not about to stick around and find out.

My invisibility flickers off as I move past the next cell, which has yet another person trapped inside, a spider clamped around their head, leeching purple magic back up its thread and into the ceiling. I shudder, wondering how many more people are in Yedzaquib’s lair. How many people have been whisked away to vanish beneath the Athenaeum over the years?

[Arcana crystal located,] Echo suddenly pipes up.

And there it is. Right where Zyneth said it would be, a shining, red crystal glows from behind a field. I flicker a quick Inspect on, and verify the crystal is 82% charged. While I’m at it, I also notice lines of mana circuits funneling into the crystal.

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