Demigods Academy - Year One by Elisa S. Amore

Author:Elisa S. Amore [Elisa S. Amore]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 1947425099
Amazon: B07VYY67GT
Publisher: Amore Publishing
Published: 2019-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

MELANY

I didn’t sleep. I lay awake on my bed in the dark, not only thinking about what I needed to do to get out of the academy, but about what Georgina had said—that I was the snake that swallowed everyone up. I wasn’t sure how to take that. It definitely wasn’t a positive connotation. I knew visions weren’t literal, but I couldn’t see the positive in it at all.

At midnight, I rolled out of bed and got ready to go. I patted my pants pocket to make sure the energy ball from Georgina was there, and then checked my jacket pocket to make sure I still had the vial Dionysus gave me. My stomach churned, and nerves zipped through me. I wasn’t sure I could do this. I might be leading Jasmine into the abyss. I might end up dooming both of us.

Georgina whispered to me in the dark, “Good luck. Don’t die out there.”

“I’ll try not to.”

I peeked out the door into the dark corridor. It was empty. Pandora normally did her rounds at ten, which was curfew, and two in the morning. So I had a two-hour leeway to get down to the foundry and find a way out through the forge. I hoped Hephaistos wasn’t in his workshop. This whole mission might be for nothing.

Sticking close to the wall and the shadows wavering there, I crept down the hallway and out onto the landing before the stone staircase to wait for Jasmine. A couple minutes later, she ran out to join me. I grabbed her hand and squeezed it, and then we carefully crept down the stairs to the main foyer.

All was quiet. There was no one around, and I didn’t hear anything out of the ordinary because of the ticking of the huge clock hanging over the main doors. On silent feet, we snuck around the corner and to the stairs leading down four levels to Hephaistos’s forge.

It was pitch black down the stairs. There wasn’t a trace of light. If we didn’t have some kind of light, we’d definitely trip down the stairs and break something. I hadn’t thought to bring a flashlight, since I didn’t know where I would find one. This couldn’t be what stopped us.

I looked down at my hands and considered them for a moment. Then I slapped them together, very aware of the sound it made, but it had to be done, and rubbed the palms together.

Jasmine gave me a wide-eyed look and mouthed, “What are you doing?”

But it soon became evident when a soft yellow glow blossomed between my hands. Slowly, I pulled them apart to create a small ball of fire. It was enough to guide our way.

Smiling, Jasmine gave me a thumbs up. We made our way down the stairs, each step illuminated by my homemade lantern I carried in my hand. At the bottom, we waited for a minute. Lucian said he’d be here, but I didn’t want him to get into any trouble. He’d directed me to Dionysus; that had been enough.

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