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Kilorn forces the key again, twisting This tih to hear the s inward as the first soldier rounds the corner, but hts are only of Cal

It seems princes make me blind

The invisible curtain drops the moment Kilorn shoves me into the cell It’s a familiar sensation but I can’t place it I’ve felt it before, I know I have, but where? I don’t have ti fro arms outstretched Not to me, or theTo the door as it yanks shut

The click of the lock echoes inside ain

"What?" I ask the heavy, stale air But the only answer I need is Kilorn’s face, staring at s fro between a scowl and a sob

I’m sorry, he h theMore follow, flanking the Colonel His satisfied sraph, and I begin to understand what just happened The Colonel even has the audacity to laugh

Cal hurls hiainst solid iron He swears through the pain, cursing Kilorn, me, this place, himself I barely hear him over Julian’s voice in ht, I call for the lightning My sparks will free hter into screams

But they don’t co

Like in the cells, like the arena

"Silent Stone," Cal says, leaning heavily against the door He points with one bloody fist to back corners of the floor and ceiling "They have Silent Stone"

To make you weak To ainst the , punching at Kilorn’s head But I hit glass, not flesh, and hear only the cracking of my own knuckles instead of his stupid skull Despite the wall between us, he flinches

He can barely look at me He shivers when the Colonel puts one hand on his shoulder, whispering into his ear Kilorn can only watch as I scream, an indecipherable roar of frustration, and h silver, joining into sos of the ainst the floor, the only sound in the square cell I leave the other chair where it lies, upended and battered after being thrown against the wall Cal did quite a nu both chairs and a now dented table There’s a single chink in the wall, just below the here the corner of the table hit ho y, I conserve it, and take a seat in the center of the room Cal paces back and forth before the , more animal than one, having left with his new friend the Colonel

And I am revealed for exactly what I a fro my lesson But next to the Hall of the Sun, Archeon, and the Bowl of Bones, thiscompared to the queen or a line of executioners

"You should sit," I tell Cal, finally growing tired of his vengeful intensity "Unless you plan on wearing your way through the floor?"

He scowls, annoyed, but stopsup a chair, he leans against the wall in a childish act of defiance "I’ his knuckles against the wall "And that you have the worst taste in s more than I’d like it to Yes, I cared for Maven, cared for him far more than I want to admit, and Kilorn is my closest friend They are betrayers both