Magician In Captivity: Power of Poses - Book Three by Guy Antibes

Author:Guy Antibes [Antibes, Guy]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: CasiePress LLC
Published: 2016-04-23T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

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After hours of moving back and forth in the castle, Trak decided to stop his activities as the waking population of the castle began to grow. He clutched his thin black cloak around him and teleported home.

Tembul looked up from Trak’s desk. “What is this with all the notes?”

Trak looked up at his companion. “I did something foolish.”

“You didn’t—“

Trak nodded and smiled. “I teleported into the castle about ten times last night to check on the map. Don’t worry, no one caught me, but I found that our friend Jojo didn’t give us an accurate map.”

“That’s evident,” Tembul said pointing at all of the corrections. “You caught all these errors?”

Trak pointed to an area of the map. “The plans were useless. If we had sneaked into the castle and relied on them as drawn, we wouldn’t have been able to find the princess, much less our way around. I only succeeded because I could teleport in and out.”

“What about the rooms?”

“I appeared in a lady’s room. Once I found the bearings, I teleported out.” Trak pointed to a section of the map. “I didn’t even look for the princess. A few more nights, and then I’ll be confident we will have a good enough idea of where things are to begin to explore.” Trak put the plans away. “Not a word to Mori.”

“Or to Sirul,” Tembul said. “Not until we are ready to go.”

Trak knit his brows together. “You don’t trust him?”

Tembul pursed his lips and said, “Just the two of us for now. Since we are beset by enemies all around us, that’s one less person to make a slip. It is a matter of finding who is less of an enemy than another.”

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The two men pushed Sirul to spend his time getting the two flyers prepared. Trak kept up his late-night forays into the castle until he had the main part of the palace re-mapped. He hadn’t explored the very top where the Emperor lived or the cells at the bottom. While Trak slept, Tembul memorized the revisions.

Trak decided to walk through the dungeon area and appeared at the bottom of a stairway leading down to the lower levels that he had verified. The lamps that lit the lower part of the castle had given way to greasy torches that created pools of flickering light. The dungeons reminded Trak of the mines he had worked outside of Peskoa where he first met Jojo, but these walls consisted of stone blocks. He wondered if any of the dungeons really went below ground, and suspected they were built within the windowless stone walls that made up the artificial hill leading up to the castle proper.

He had to stop from time to time as he paced out the corridors and the doors. Where he had to, he spelled dim lights to assist him with note taking. When he confronted the occasional guard station, he teleported to the other side of it.

Trak wished he could magically remove the smell of the dark passages.

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