Chapter 50- A thin route

Chapter 50- A thin route

The desire for revenge

is a poison that eats away the heart.

~Sophocles

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As soon as they turned towards the flight of stairs, it was exactly the moment Medusa reached the end of the last stairs and hid behind a wall, back at the end of the corridor.

At first, the voices were indistinct but as they drew closer, she could make out the words, “They get tasty for attractive things but forget it has attraction. Now, they are magnetized to their death,” The former who spoke first said, his voice echoing, joining the latter in their conversation.

“Only the wiser ones steal the cheese but the foolish take the whole packet,” The voices became much clearer and audible to Medusa when they took the same flight of stairs, descending subserviently. “Now the wiser one is trapped and the foolish made its way.”

“Who exactly caught them? Was it Sire Malcolm?”