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"Perhaps in the future For noill be satisfied with low-quality gold," King Torgen said, his sh her teeth Everyone knew it! It wasn’t possible for a noricians and enchanters would have plucked her up as a child!
"Forgive me, My Lord, but I, your lowly subject, ic in public," Geuards will prepare a room with the specifications you have eons, lest there be a en said "Guards!"
"Geuards that escorted Gemma into the throne roo between Ge her out Gemma could hear her mother’s sobs and the whispers of all present as they left the throne roo staircase into the depths of the wooden castle
The deeper they went, the eons were known for the terrors that happened in theht sources seemed to sputter in the terrible darkness, snuffed out by the horror of the place
The guards escorted Ge the ithout Geuards had plucked up various items they set down inside the cell One dropped a small wooden stool, another a worn but thick blanket A third soldier set down a bucket of water, and the fourth placed a cloak down on the ground
"You acted with honor, Miss," one of the soldiers said as the others filed out of the cell "I’ive you reat difficulty "Thank you," she said before the soldier shut the door
With the soldiers gone, Gemma was left alone in the oppressive silence She stood on the stool to try to look outside--there was aset in the ceiling covered with a rate that let her see bits of the cloudy sky, and two palace walls She tried half-heartedly pulling on the grate of the ceiling-, but it didn’t budge
"I didn’t think it would be easy to get out of here," Geround cell "My real chance will co"
To conserve energy, Geainst the wall of the cell The air was chilly outside, and the dungeon was perversely cool, so Gemma wrapped herself in the warm blanket and buried her nose in the cloth to try and block out the sewage sht disappeared Geuessed it was late afternoon when there was a heavy thuround above Gemoing to strangle you own cli that wretched wall!"
Gemma rocketed from her blanket cocoon "Lady Linnea?" she asked, her voice incredulous
A shadoas cast on the floor of her cell as the blonde-haired noblewoood! I nearly dislocatedyou before this Each cell is individually walled in; can you iine the stupidity of that? Our taxes at work, I suppose Why didn’t you rip off a piece of your dress and hang it froood captive? I would have been able to figure out where you hen I tried spying you out fro," Lady Linnea peevishly said
"Because I didn’t think anyone would helpthe stool so she could properly address the lady
"I’one fro to Papa He wouldn’t listen," she said, gripping an iron bar with a hand that tre to abandon you"
"I can’t blame him It’s safer for your family Not to mention it is my father’s fault I am in this mess"
"I will not allow you to be left behind," Lady Linnea said, stubbornly tucking her head
"Thank you," Gemma said, touched by the fiery lady’s words "Even if you cannot free me, I thank you"
"Cannot free you? Just who do you think I am?" Lady Linnea scoffed "Farset wouldn’t let me into their army if I couldn’t break you out of here!"
"Then you have a plan?"
Lady Linnea’s plans were frequent Their success, however, was rare