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"You have my support; you’ll always have ht and so go alone, I guess Go do your super-hero thing" Jericho s, so filled with longing that I alround tunnels lead to a pool house Are they true?" Jericho turned fro our prisoner for directions to kill his cousin with the first hint of respect I had heard in his voice
"Yes, they’re true, and they do lead to the pool house on the north side of the property Kiran and I used to play in the drastic happened in the last five years then they should still be open I can draw you a reens, you’ll still have to get inside the house, and to Kiran’s room," Sebastian explained quietly
"I should be clear right now, Eden," Jericho interrupted, "I know that we use the word, ’palace,’ but really it’s an extree house in the countryside just outside of London It’s not like what you saw in India It just happens to be one of the larger, nicer estates in the country"
"Ah, ok" I had toI pictured a loo hallways that would be easy to hide in I pictured Ro into a house, with narrow hallways and smaller spaces "So are there security cameras?"
"Of course," Sebastian snapped and then shook his head as if to coize, there will be security cameras, but the palace is not a fortress, it is not like Romania Give me some paper, I’ll draw you a map"
Silence prevailed for a few minutes while the rest of us searched the apart for a paper and pen Gabriel found e needed in a desk in the sitting rooan drawing a rough sketch of the grounds
"Here is where the tunnel will co labeled pool house and a treed area with an arrow pointing outwards froe box labeled h so that I could understand the lay of the land
A large main house sat in thepools dotted the property, but only the largest pool had a house connected to it Fro I could tell a thick wooded area and a tall, secured, stone wall surrounded the entire property
"It et to Kiran’s roo into the house" He sat back on his chair, biting his thu an agonizing chill downI hadn’ttrip so I could do my Eternal Walk in India, after all
Sebastian pointed to a box on the south side of the house with a large balcony drawn around it He explained that itthe vined lattice that adorned the backside of the mansion I could climb the lattice and shimmy my way over the balcony, quietly take out Talbott, or whoever was in there with him, finish the job, and leave the same way; no one would know the difference
The plan actually sounded like it could work
"It sounds way too easy," Ithe sa
"Sebastian, if this is some sort of trick, I swear to God, I will kill you ers through his hair and then started pacing the length of the kitchen nervously
"Well, obviously, the Guard doesn’t anticipate so to break into the palace and that is why it will be easy If Eden, can turn off her rounds undetected, theoretically, anyway That’s why it sounds easy, this is not a trick," he insisted sadly, slu black with ic will not be a proble h?" I asked, pointing to the rough map on the arm of Sebastian’s chair
"That is his room, but whether his is there for sure, I cannot say" Sebastian looked up atme directions to murder his cousin, his best friend, and his crowned prince and I almost broke for him Kiran was my enemy, and Sebastian too, for that matter, but I couldn’t separate e
"Howto put together as rounds will be covered with Guard, and the house as well, but as far as in his room, last time I visited there, it was just Kiran and one other Guard, usually Talbott There will be a nurse as well, but as far asyou need to worry about" Sebastian looked to the side, towards aon the far side of the apartment My eyes followed his and I stared out at the busy London street, wishing I wasall of these beautiful cities under completely different circumstances
"Will Lucan be there?" I asked My fears subsided at the eance that sedme of my purpose
"No, he is in" Sebastian cleared his throat nervously, "Ro blind with rage at the idea he ithAvalon daily, but those were the kind of facts that would always claw atat my neck
"I don’t like this," Jericho interrupted loudly "Soht"
"Do we have another choice?" I turned to hienuinely "Is there another option? Another way to get to hi hi to each man in the room individually, but I was met with silence, even from Jericho "Seriously, if there is another way I aestions, but we all know that there isn’t We all know, that this is our only option and our only opportunity"