Xavi watches Indy. Absolute hatred in his amber eyes. He seems to be forgetting that she just saved his life. It may be the Blood Tie that is making me feel this way, but I am ready to rip his throat out if he so much as touches a hair on her head.
*She has the upper hand here. We need to get out.” I tell them
I glance at the woman on Orion’s shoulder. Her eyes are closed and a trickle of blood runs across her temple.
*He knocked her out turning a corner,” Klaus tells me. “She is fine or at least she will be.”
We continue to move through the stone corridors and up multiple levels of steps. There is never a window or another door, just more stone walls.
Indy suddenly stops, pressing her hands against a crack. She glances back at me. ‘I can try.”
I nod.
Xavi watches her. A hint of his sharp teeth on show. I block his path, glaring at him. He could try, but he will never succeed.
“Pack it in, the both of you. We just need to get out of this place!” Klaus snaps
The crack in the wall grows until the early morning light breaks through.
Pieces of the stone fall away, crashing down to the ground below, leaving a massive hole for all of us to look out. We were at least four floors up, maybe even five. Below, the people of the pack stare up at us. Still and silent. Thalia moves between them, her dress dragging along the ground behind her, probably whispering some spell to them.
*How did she get outside so quickly?” Indy whispers
*She knows this place like the back of her hand,” Klaus mutters. “Secret doors, probably secret rooms. She wants to keep us here. Trap us forever.”
I lean out, it is a sheer drop and the chances of survival jumping from this height are unlikely.
“I don’t know Orion!” Indy snaps at him. “It’s new to me too!”
*This is not helping. We need to find a way out.” Klaus sighs
*And without all the fucking zombified assholes coming after us. I’m happy to kill, but even I can see we are well and truly outnumbered.”
“But it’s not them.” Indy pleads with me. “They don’t deserve to die for something they don’t know is even happening.”
I feel her pain. She was so desperate to help these people. To snap them out of whatever trance the wicked Witch had put them under but I’m not even sure it’s possible without killing Thalia first. And by the looks of it, Thalia knew that. It was why she was putting more people between us and her.
“What do we do?” Indy asks
“Ugh,” Amelia mutters from Orion’s shoulder.
*Amelia?”
“Don’t call her that,” Klaus tells me. “She goes by Amy.”
Orion lowers her to the ground and props her up against the wall as she continues to groan. Her hand moves to the dried blood on her temple. “Blood. My blood.” She blinks a few times and her grey eyes move between us before she slumps forward.
“Amy,” Klaus mutters as he squats. “Amy, is there another way out?”
“Not here. Somewhere else.”
“Where?” I demand
Her head wobbles side to side. Her grey eyes widen as they focus. “Trapped.”
*She is not helpful.”
“You don’t know that!” Klaus frowns at me.
“Amy,” Indy whispers. “Do you remember me? It’s been a long time. You used to come and visit me, bringing me presents.”
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“It’s not Samara,” Klaus tells Amy. “I’m going to take you to meet her, but we need to get out of White Cliffs.”
*Just let her believe it.” Indy mutters. “If it means she gets to be more responsive. Let her believe it.” She lets Amy cup her face. “Can you show us how to get out of here?”
Amy’s eyes flicker around the rest of us and she nods. “I can help.”