Masque of the Red Death by Bethany Griffin

Author:Bethany Griffin [Griffin, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: ePub Bud (www.epubbud.com)
Published: 2012-04-30T16:00:00+00:00

“Unfortunately, yes.” He stands and goes to the washstand.

He splashes water into a basin. “I choose my informants wel. She knows everything that happens in the palace.” Eliott’s shoes are at the foot of my bed. His right shoe is stained with dungeon muck.

“Eliott?”

He comes back toward me, smoothing his shirt, and folows my gaze.

“I met last night with some of my people. That’s how I heard you screaming. I was in the corridor, returning to my room.”

“Was your meeting productive?” He is not teling me the whole truth, not mentioning the visitor I heard at his door, but I let him have this secret.

“Yes, but nothing conclusive about April.” He checks his reflection in the mirror. “I want to go to the tower before we leave.”

“Do you think she’ll be there? Maybe?”

“No.”

His answer is simple and harsh. I don’t want to ask more, but I feel I must.

“Will we be alowed to leave?”

“I’m not certain. But I find the best strategy is to act like he’ll let us walk out of here when we want.”

His answers are not reassuring. I’m sure he doesn’t mean them to be.

Eliott leads me down the halway, up two flights of steps to another halway that’s filed with antique cannons. “My uncle colects oddities,” he says.

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