Silverblood || Blessed or Cursed?

Chapter 25

"Where exactly are we going?" I asked Arav who silently led me through some of the lonely hallways of the palace.

"You'll know when we get there," he replied lightly, as we reached a large granite wall. I didn't know whether to be scared or curious.

He took hold of the fire torch that was welded onto the wall. He slightly pulled it as it moved forward a little, along with a small block of granite attached to it.

For a second I thought the torch would break and come off the wall. I was so focused on what Arav was doing that I jumped when the granite wall on my side moved.

The sound of rocks moving against each other lightly echoed through the hallway, revealing a dark passageway.

"Are we going to some sort of cult meeting?" I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Just be quiet and follow me," he took the fire torch and led us through the passageway. I felt slightly creeped out with the darkness and gloomy atmosphere that my thoughts began to take over my calmness. What's gonna happen? Where is Arav taking me? He couldn't possibly be taking me to kill me... right? I shook my head, stopping my mind from going down that train of thoughts.

After walking for a few minutes I started to hear a few voices. Arav made a sudden turn, causing me to nearly go face first into a wall. We reached a wooden door, which Arav opened with a light shove. I walked into the room, which had been lit by more fire torches.

Did they not have electricity at all?

My eyes focused on the two figures sitting on the benches laid out on the side of the walls.

"What are you two doing here? How did you even get here?" I asked, surprised to see Ramon and Lana. Both were dressed in traditional Indian clothing, Lana's dress a different colored version of what I wore.

Instead of looking at me, Ramon focused his gaze on Arav.

"Your sisters told us that something important had to be discussed and dragged us here, told us to wait and shut themselves in that room. They've been in there for like half an hour now!" Arav sighed and walked to another door that stood on the opposite side of the room.

He briefly knocked and opened the door.

He turned to us.

"Stay here, I'll only be gone for a few minutes," he turned around, letting out an exasperated side, walking in, closing the door behind him.

"That's what they said," Ramon grumbled. It was not that I realized that the voices could be heard in the other room.

I sat next to Lana looking at Ramon who seemed to have forgotten to comb his hair which looked like a bird's nest.

"Someone woke up at the wrong side of the bed today," I said teasingly.

"More like dragging me out of bed. I was tired! And they didn't even bother to knock, well I think they didn't knock." Ramon whined like a five year old.

I rolled my eyes and looked at Lana.

"What were you doing?" I asked her.

"Murdering google translate," Agni casually replied, walking through the now opened door.

Lana gave a sheepish smile.

"I was curious as to what the texts read, they were written in Hindi, Pali and Sanskrit and a couple other languages... so I was trying to translate them."

"Do you guys even have cellular service here?" Ramon asked.

"You'd be surprised but we actually do. This isn't the Stone Age. We're not completely out of touch with the modern world. We just choose to use natural resources to fulfill our basic needs," Agni replied.