The RavenStark Quest: Awakening

CHAPTER 29: BETRAYAL

You think you know someone but in reality, we only know things that they allow us to know. We can never truly be sure that we can understand and analyze a person thoroughly. We trust them blindly and get betrayed painfully. And that's just one of the painful truths of life. 

"How could you do this? You of all people?" Katherine cried her eyes out and shouting.

"We trusted you, we believed in you."Drake bellowed. Both he and Katherine had their arms and legs tied and put down on the cold hard floor of the building.

Ethan lay beaten upon the floor, with injuries on every part of his body.

And there I was crawling on the floor trying so hard to get up, with every part of my body burning. It was like someone lit me on fire only from inside. My eyes blurred out of focus.

"Don't try too hard Elizabeth, you are weak." A voice echoed my ears.

"Mom! Stop it. Leave her alone."Katherine yelled pleading. 

A few hours ago...

"What are you saying, Drake? A mole?" Mrs.Farella asked shocked.

"Yes, Mrs.Farella. And it is none other than Resilius Viktor. Please--please, get us out of here, fast, we are being chased." Drake said hurried.

"Calm down. Okay, now go to the backside of the castle and I will meet you there. Be safe. And more importantly, keep Elizabeth and Ethan secure, they are too important." Mrs.Farella ordered. Too important? It sounded like we were just some assets to be protected. Nevertheless, we followed what she told.

Immediately, Drake kept the necklace in his pocket and laid out a plan to go to the castle back without getting caught.

"So, to reach the backside of the castle it will approximately take us 10 minutes or even less than that if we take down the secret passage." He said seriously.

"The secret passage?"I asked intrigued.

"Yes, but there is a problem," Drake said.

"What now?" Christina asked.

"To enter the secret passage we must go into Olisen's office." Ethan bit his lips. "Which now apparently is swarmed with guards."

"We can't fight them off either, Katherine is barely able to walk Chris and I are useless, you two can't hold off dozens. We might need to find some other way." I said cautiously. "Fast."

"There isn't another way Liz. Resilius would have probably stationed heavy security on every exit right this very moment, we are sure to get caught if we settle for another way." Drake anxiously thought.

"We can't get inside the office without any distraction. We will get caught either way." Ethan said frustrated.

"Can't you cook up some magic to take us directly there?" I asked Drake.

"I am afraid that will be too noticeable. Our motive isn't just to get out of here to the back castle, we should also cut them off our tail so they don't follow us. And unfortunately, the only way is through the secret passage in Olisen's office." Drake said helplessly.

"God, this is taking so long." I let out a heavy breath and turned back to look at Chris who was taking care of Katherine. But she was gone! "Chris--where are you?" I called out in a hushed voice. Drake and Ethan turned back alarmed.

"What--what now?" Drake asked anxiously.

"Chris--She is not here," I said perturbed looking around quietly.

"What are you saying? Where is she?" Ethan said frantically looking around.

"Chris---" I called out again when Drake let out a shock.