Desperate to stop the events of a recurring nightmare, Leora is forced into a world that wants nothing more than to see her dead.
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After being plagued with nightmares of the murders taking place in t...
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AETOS MANOR|THE STADIUM
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AETOS MANOR HAD A STADIUMright in its centre. A cream circular stadium that had rows on rows of seats, seats that were filled to the brim with people dressed in multicolour robes in spite of the blazing sun above them.
It looked like something right out of a movie. I definitely wasn't in Kansas anymore, none of the people in the crowd looked like they'd ever stepped a foot in the city.
The veil surrounding the manor must've been thick, very thick, to the point where none of them found what was happening to be abhorrent.
This was the norm for them.
The stadium had no grass, just desert sand and a glass dome that separated the spectators from the people within the stadium grounds.
All the rows were filled except the two closest rows to the glass dome where in one section were seven large gray stone chairs that stood with different flags draped on them.
I recognised the Aetos, Caldwell and Beaumont flags, the other four were new, I hadn't seen them anywhere in the manor.
In the middle of the stadium stood a circular platform made from the same sand with stairs all around, in the middle of the platform stood a guillotine, I recognised it from my aunt's books.
Not one person batted an eye seeing the medieval murder machine.
Officer West, Josh and I hid in one of the many gates that led into the stadium. Maeve had led us down a passageway to this very gate that had been closed off from the public's eyes.
Her expression was stoic as we walked down the unstable pathway into a small room, we could see the stadium through the gaps on the metal gate.
Maeve disappeared right after we reached the gate.
"Leo?"I looked at Josh, he was still dressed in the clothes from the infirmary. "You're shaking, are you sure you can do this? You look like you're still in pain. "
"I can, "I stated bluntly, there was an invisible wall between us, one I'd put up.
Josh deserved to know about his mother, what she'd done for me. But not yet.
And he was right, I was in pain, not the pain in my joints but the throbbing persistent pain in my chest.
I was shaking and it wasn't out of fear, the more I thought about the fact that they were going to publicly whip and execute an innocent person just because of what they were, the more rage burned inside me.
