A crown of flames

Chapter 14

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 .