Then I might duck out and make my approach to the marina. That was my solely hope for escaping the Dragon Isles. I provided up silent due to Silas for displaying me the boats.

“What the hell is that this?” the one tying my palms requested as his palms brushed my again whereas ending up.

The glani was roughly pulled to the facet, and he pawed at me whereas pulling the dragon-scale knife from the place it had been strapped to my again. Apparently, my captors have been extra thorough than the palace guards.

“Seth, take a look at this,” he referred to as.

I listened because the chief came visiting. There was silence, however I might simply think about Seth wanting the knife over.

The bag was abruptly yanked from my head, taking a clump of hair with it. I yelped on the sudden ache, at the same time as I blinked furiously towards the daylight streaming in by the half-dozen skylights excessive above us on the slanted rooftop.

I obtained a backhand throughout my face for my troubles.

“Silence!” Seth barked as he glared down at me, holding the knife in a single hand. His lengthy, black hair fell to both facet of his face.

His hair was a multitude, however the equally darkish beady eyes have been sharp and centered. The black button-up he wore was stained with blood alongside the left sleeve and ripped partway up the seam on the opposite facet. Indicators of the struggle. He additionally had some patterned bruising alongside his jaw that may be from a fist.

Sadly, his nostril was nonetheless intact. I longed to see it damaged nonetheless. Something to wipe the smug vanity from his face.

“The place did you get this?” he snarled, holding up the knife.

I gazed again at him. He wouldn’t get a simple reply out of me. That was for positive. Then I might don’t have any leverage left to protect myself.

“Reply me!” he howled.

I let my head fall again barely, staring down my nostril at him. “You’ve by no means carried out an interrogation earlier than, have you ever?”

His eyes almost bulged out of his head. “You’re a rattling spy,” he hissed, the knife shaking as he waved it in entrance of me. “You stole this. You stole data. You have been making an attempt to show all the things to your bosses. They have been proper.”

I rolled my eyes. “You’re similar to the others.”

“What’s that purported to imply?” he sneered. “I’m higher than them. Look how I stole you out from underneath their noses. They will’t contact me.”

Seth was making it far too straightforward. It was like coping with amateurs. I attempted to not smile.

“It was a daring transfer, snatching me out from the jail,” I stated, giving him the encouragement his ego so clearly wanted. “I’m impressed you managed it so cleanly.”

“They by no means anticipated it,” he hissed. “By no means noticed us coming. Identical to the remaining received’t both.”

“The remaining?”

Seth laughed. “You assume we’re going to cease right here? That that is the tip? After all not. My father is retiring. Stepping apart, actually. I’m the pinnacle of my home, and I’ve assembled our folks right here. All of them. They’re ready.”

My mind labored to course of all the data Seth was so freely pouring out.

“Ready for what? Your coronation to start? I’m flattered, however I don’t see how a human like me has any half to play in that.”

Seth laughed and tossed the knife onto a close-by desk. I didn’t let my eyes observe it as a lot as I longed to. The purpose was to distract him from it. Get him occurring about himself.

“You received’t be round for that,” he stated, pointing a finger. “However you’re a part of the present I’m giving myself. A present that may guarantee my standing is cemented as head of the strongest household. None will problem me. Unusual to assume it’s all potential due to a pathetic human akin to your self, however these are unusual instances we stay in.”

“How am I going to assist? I don’t know something.”

He snorted. “You’re not right here to do something moreover be right here,” he stated. “A beacon.”

Then I bought it.

“You’re luring Silas right here,” I stated slowly. “That’s why you introduced all of your folks in from wherever they have been. You’re laying an ambush for him.”

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