At dinner , i sit with Victoria and Luke again.
Luke politely asks how i am feeling without explicitly mentioning what happened.
What a sweetheart.
I avoid looking in the Prince's direction , even though i know his attention isn't on me , i can hear his deep laughter from across the room , Milo and Lysander entertaining him with foolish jokes, but i don't want to face him until i know i won't stand up and rip him apart .
Although i'm finding it difficult to come up with a list of reasons why that would be a bad idea.
I eat half my plate and find my self feeling queasy , probably the after effects of the drug so i excuse my self from dinner early.
I walk out of the hall, twisting the golden ring in my pocket , i haven't been wearing it these past couple of days in fear of offending the queen , but i put it in my pocket before dinner , in need of something from home to ground me.
I walk down a new corridor and as i drink in all the art i hadn't seen yet , something catches my attention.
Whispers of some sort?
They seem to be be coming from my right so i put my head against the wall.
The whispers grow louder.
I put my candle down,and strain my ears.
Yes,someone or some people seem to be chanting something over and over again.
Inside the walls ? i
I shake my head , maybe it was some last minute hallucinations from the drug Alex had slipped me.
I walk to the end of the corridor but the whispers only get louder.
I spot a grand fountain decorating the wide end of the corridor .
A marble statue stood in the middle of the fountain.
An angel holding what seemed to be a cross.
Although now the cross was now broken.
Water was spurting out of the Angel's mouth into the pool and so i cupped my hands and reached in to scoop some water.
I pull my hands back as i wince at the sudden sharp pain.
I look at my hands and i'm not surprised to see burn marks forming.
But how? the water wasn't exactly hot , it just hurt like it was.....
Corrosive, toxic.
The whispers resumed and i sat on the edge of the fountain trying to discover whether i'd lost my mind or not.
I place my hand on the mini arrow shaped stone next to the Angel to steady my self as i started to re-tie my boots but then a clicking noise from behind the fountain made me come to a halt.
The mosaic windows behind the fountain slowly unfold revealing a set of tunnels behind them.
What kind of supernatural movie is this? I thought to my self .

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A crown of flames
AdventureThe modernisation of our world was a mistake , they said. Overindulgence and greed would be the end of mankind. Seventy years ago the former fifty-first state of America won its independence from the rest of the nation in order to preserve traditi...