Chapter 135

"Where is the Staff of Sullivan?" I whispered into the dark. I chose a bone and then scooped the rest into my pocket. With my next breath suspended in my lungs, I pressed my ear to the door. Silence. I didn't trust it, but I opened the door anyway, just enough to read my bones from the light of the hallway torches.

Straight, the bone read.

Pocketing the bone, I slipped out, sidestepped to the left slightly, and headed straight down the hallway I hadn't yet taken.

Why hadn't they discovered me yet? They'd had plenty of time to do a locator spell by now, unless they wanted to play a game of cat and mouse before they tried to capture me.

The short hall led to stairs that disappeared into darkness below. I took a burning green skull from the wall and held it in front of me as I descended, my hand shaking. Down here where I couldn't see, didn't know where I was, I could easily be backed into a corner. But I refused to give up.