Chapter 123

I am in the darkest dark I’ve ever experienced. Even in the Crystal Rose dungeons, we had some light filtering through the gaps in the roof and under the doors. Here there’s nothing. Just the muddy ground under my ass and the cloying smell of rotting plant matter.

It’s cold and uncomfortable. For some reason, they took off all my clothes before they threw me in their little magical prison.

I sit against one of the rudimentary dirt walks, my legs drawn up to my chest, shaking as the temperature starts to drop even faster.

“Kane?” I try for the hundredth time to mind link with him since he broke our last link, but I can’t. They’re blocking our connection. I don’t know how he broke through their spells earlier, but whatever magic he used wasn’t enough. I could barely make out anything he said.

I fall over on my side, clutching my knees to my aching breasts. Inhaling the scent of the wet earth, and trying not to think about whatever’s in the hole with me. I can handle bugs and spiders,