Love Games by Mia Archer

Author:Mia Archer [Archer, Mia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-12-17T05:00:00+00:00

15: Royal Captive

I felt like I should be walking with my hands out in front of me or something like that. I’d all but been clapped in irons even if it was in a virtual reality sense rather than a reality sense. When I hit Erin with that anti-magic spell yesterday I figured she must not’ve had the thing in her arsenal. Otherwise she would’ve used it, right? I know I used everything at my disposal as soon as I could.

But no. She’d been pulling her punches yesterday. That must’ve been one hell of a surprise when she got hit too.

“So how far is it to this central keep whatsit anyways?” I asked. “Feels like we’ve been walking forever.”

“There’s a reason they gave me a caravan yesterday. This play area is relatively small, but that just means someone could walk from one end to the other in half a day if they were going at a brisk pace,” Erin said.

“Hard to walk at a brisk pace through woods in a dress,” I muttered. Whoever advertised that dress as being an all terrain affair deserved to be shoved in the thing and dropped in the middle of the Sahara desert. Now that I was seeing some actual mileage in the thing it was riding up in places I didn’t even know existed until this damned monstrosity found ways to really get up in there.

And believe me, picking a dress like this out of certain crevices was embarrassing enough without having an audience of players around us to witness my every move. An audience of players staring at my every move.

“Why are all your people staring at us anyways?” I asked.

“That’s easy. They all expect you to break free and kill them at any moment. Does wonders for the alert level with the troops,” Erin said.

I looked again. This time with fresh eyes. Tried to see this situation from their point of view. They were escorting a new player who’d taken out a good number of them and captured their queen for the first time ever. I walked a little taller after that. Glared at a couple of them until they looked away.

Yeah, I was a regular nightmare walking! Except I was a declawed nightmare without access to any of my spells. Almost. I suppose I still had my sword, but that was a surefire way to get myself killed so I resisted.

Besides, I figured it’d be a good idea to keep a few surprises up my sleeve.

“So how much longer…”

I stopped. Literally stopped. And stared with my jaw hanging open. At least until Erin helpfully reached out and closed it for me. I stuck my tongue out at her to let her know what I thought of that.

But damn.

“They built a real castle out here in the middle of nowhere,” I said.

“Yup. ARealms makes so much money off their game that they can splurge on nice things for their banner event,” Erin said.

The castle looked huge. I knew objectively it couldn’t be as big as a real castle, but there were walls and parapets and the whole damn thing.

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