Chapter 69

“Help the ones that can walk, I’ll carry the others.”

With the first of the rescued prisoners on the train and headed to the harbour, Voltaire returned into the palace with Aurora. Jagged cracks marred the mosaics, both down the walls and along the floor.

“The palace isn’t going to last much longer.” Voltaire staggered as the building gave a violent shake and the cracks widened. “Let’s pray George and Tsillah can get the last of those poor devils out.”

That there was little they could do to help, frustrated Aurora and she paced back and forth

“Here they come.” Aurora looked at the prisoners that Tsillah brough through next. They were the merfolk least able to move on land and she’d even found a trolley to drag them the last of the way through the tunnels.