Torn by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: rus
Format: epub
Published: 2001-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

15. Capulets & Montagues

“Why are you here?” I demanded, and Loki only raised an eyebrow in response.

His room was in the old servants’ quarters, and it wasn’t quite the cell I’d expected. Duncan had explained that the palace had once been overflowing with live-in help, but the last few decades had seen a drastic reduction in both the mänsklig and the Trylle that stayed around. Meaning there were less people to staff the palace.

Even though we didn’t have a dungeon, I’d thought Loki would be kept some place similar to where the Vittra had put me. But this was just a room, the same as the one Finn stayed in when he lived here, except this one had no windows. It was small, with an adjoining bathroom and a twin bed.

To top it off, Loki’s bedroom door was wide open. A tracker stood guard a little ways down the hall, but he wasn’t even at the door. I convinced Duncan to distract him because I wanted to talk to Loki alone for a minute, and it hadn’t been that hard for Duncan to steer the guard away.

Loki lay on top of his blankets on his bed, his hands folded behind his head and his legs crossed at the ankles. A plate of food sat on the end table, untouched.

“Princess, I didn’t know you’d be visiting, or I’d have straightened up the place,” Loki smirked and gestured vaguely to his room. There was hardly anything in it, so it wasn’t messy at all.

“Why are you here, Loki?” I repeated. I stood just outside the door, my arms crossed over my chest.

“I don’t think the Queen would like it much if I left.” He sat up, swinging his long legs over the edge of the bed.

“Why don’t you leave?” I asked, and he laughed.

“I can’t very well do that, now can I?” Loki stood up and sauntered towardd me.

Some rational part of me thought I should step back, but I refused to. I didn’t want to him to see any weakness, so I raised my chin high, and he stopped at the doorway.

“I don’t see anything stopping you.”

“Yes, but your mother works best on the things you cannot see,” he said. “If I were to leave the room, I’d become so violently ill, I’d be unable to walk.”

“Elora would do that to you?” I asked, and he nodded. “How do you know for sure?”

“Because I tried to leave,” Loki smiled. “I wasn’t going to let a thing like bodily harm stop me from escaping, but I underestimated the Queen. She’s very, very good with persuasion.”

“How does that work? She used persuasion and told you what would happen if you left the room?” I asked. “And now you can’t leave?”

“I don’t know exactly how persuasion works.” Loki turned away from me, growing bored with the conversation. “It’s never been my thing.”

“What is your thing?” I asked.

“This and that,” Loki shrugged and sat back down the bed.

“Why did you come here?” I asked. “What

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