Black Wings A Cast of Magic

Chapter 4

The next day was more and more chores. We received a small lunch of bread and fruit, then walked to the throne room for more things to do. When we walked in, Callrook was yelling at Bailey.

"Hi Bailey!" I called out, trying to disrupt the one-way yelling match.

"Ah, I see you've met my daughter." Callrook said, trying to kill Bailey with his eyes. "She was talking about you, said that you did a very nice job cleaning her room that she would like you back to do it again for a while."

"Yes master." I said.

"Yes master." Kodi echoed.

We walked with Bailey to her room. And found a blueprint waiting on the bedside table for us. I gave Bailey a puzzled look that was mirrored by Kodi. Bailey sent a mischievous look back at us.

"Let's clean up the room quickly and then read through the blueprints to this place." Bailey said to me and Kodi.

They both nodded and we grabbed a cleaning tool to start working. Deciding to turn cleaning into a game we all started with something. I started with a washcloth for the windows I cleaned a single window then threw it to Kodi. Kodi threw his mop to Bailey at the same time Bailey threw her duster to me. We kept doing this for about an hour when Bailey finally set down her mop. I sighed with relief that was done. We ran over to the table and sat down in the chairs around it.

"So when should we leave at?" I asked them.

"Well I think that it would be good if we escaped on the third floor, midnight or one in the morning would be good, I also say we wait a week, so that I can steal the key to your room." Bailey said, tracing her finger across the map.

"But there's no escape route on the third floor." I said, perplexed.

"The reason we're doing it on the third floor is because I made a zip line when I was ten and I left it up, plus the front door will be heavily guarded." Bailey pointed out.

"Let's go check it out right now!" Kodi said with a bit too much enthusiasm.

"We can't right now, remember?" I said to him. "There are too many guards out in the day."

Kodi looked a bit crestfallen after that but it was for his own good.

"How about this." Bailey said. "I'll ask my dad if you can stay with me in the room next door then make our 'dramatic' escape from this horrid place." I sighed in relief. We finally had a way to escape? If only it was a bit less dangerous. I sighed and thought. Well, could this day get any worse. Out loud I said "Me and Kodi should get going or your dad is going to wonder what we're doing and send someone to check on us. After I said this we said our goodbyes and walked out the door.

It should have gone perfectly, with all the planning we did and all the precautions we took, it almost definitely was fool proof. But nothing was completely perfect.

That Friday, when we left Baileys room she gave us a small silver key, with six oddly placed circles instead of the grooves I was used to seeing on my old house keys.

"Room number 296." Bailey said, and, just like that, the circles on the 'key', if you would call it that, started spinning, faster and faster and faster, each one flipping over and over while doing it.

"I'm guessing you've never seen a treasurer's key before?" Kodi accurately estimated when he saw my expression.

"A what?" I asked, still staring at the circles which had finished spinning, and looked like what could only be described as a lopsided, upside down, deformed mickey mouse. With three extra ears.