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Sahar

I was still petting Azar during Acyn and Lorcan’s conversation. Acyn was being his usual, mildly irritating, self.

Quin seemed embarrassed, and I made a point of smiling at him again. I liked him already.

“No animosity? I was starting to enjoy the assassin and the princess’ squabbling. I suppose I’ll have to find another way to amuse myself,” a loud, metallic voice thundered.

Azar yelped and I ducked, reaching beneath my skirt for a knife. I flipped it around in my hand, ready to throw it at the threat. Something about the voice was deeply unsettling and really made me want to drive a knife into its owner.

“Someone tell me they heard that too?” Acyn said, calmly, then noticed the knife in my hand. “Oh, good. Spear them.”

I giggled, a sudden relief of tension.

“Wish I could but where’s the voice coming from?”

Suddenly, the entire room shifted, the rubble disappeared and turned into a blank, narrow room, with us at the far end.

“That is… scientifically impossible,” Acyn said, dubiously.

I pointedly glanced around the room, as though expecting everything to disappear in a puff of logic.

“Well, it happened,” I said.

“Am I wrong or is that wall coming toward us?” Acyn asked, uncertainly.

He wasn’t. I saw the opposite wall slowly, slowly, crawling closer. I glanced around, searching for an escape. There was nothing. The wall would crush us against the tunnel opening where Liorah and Ferran had disappeared.

“It is,” I said, hurriedly. My voice had shot up to the higher octaves and I swallowed, trying to manage my nerves.

“I suggest we all wait and then straight-up die,” Acyn suggested, helpfully.

I glared at him.

“Not the time to be dramatic.”

He looked genuinely confused.

“I was?”

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Time to make it a ✨ little more interesting ✨

Go wild, invent anything that’ll help them get out, but make it as hard as possible! Be creative!

(Also, @emily-waldorf The voice they heard was unanimously dubbed “Lord Castle” and it’s literally the sentient, malevolent voice of the castle. (It briefly had a southern accent, but I think someone changed it) Everyone controls it and you can do whatever you like with it, but the castle’s motivations are literally to make life as hard as possible for the characters XD)