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It looked like the tunnel might never end. The light spheres would hang about in the air, waiting as they worked through all the obstacles then bounce off along the corridor leading the way.The tunnel led them straight for quite a while then veered a sharp right.Mama and Papa paused at the corner.'Where are we now?' Mama asked in a soft whisper.'This will take us through the back of the DeNaga wing.'Mama stared at Papa. 'Is there no other way?''Not safely.'The line between her brows showed deep in the dim light. 'This isn't safe.'Papa shrugged, lifting Mila back to his hip. 'Nothing is safe now. We have to get out.''Not a word, Mila,' Mama warned her. 'We must be quiet as vesni.'Mila nodded, pressing a hand across her mouth to show she would be quiet.Mama went first.This area of corridor wasn't as cluttered as the last. The doors were no longer on the ceiling, but set into the walls like proper doors, only half the size. All of them hummed when Papa, Mama, and M
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A thundering BOOOM rumbled underfoot.'Dan'iss, we have to hurry!' Papa lifted Mila a little, getting a better hold. 'We don't have long.''I'm so sorry,' Auntie Liana said again, tears streaking her face. She reached for Mama, hugging her tight. 'Leave Vo'Arum, you must! He's taken at least the gifts of five Mestarns, perhaps more! He has plans, oh! Such awful plans.' Auntie Liana shook her head as she and Mama hugged, still weeping. 'I don't know how many will be alive by morning.'Mama jerked back, staring at Auntie Liana with tense eyes and slowly lifted an eyebrow, her mouth a flat line.Mila watched, fingers tight in Papa's shirt. Auntie Liana shook her head with a strange half smile, tipping her head slightly as she did so, pale eyes seeming to gesture behind her. Mila looked past and spotted Addy.'No,' Auntie Liana whispered to Mama. 'But don't fret. It'll be fast. I don't think he's likely to steal mine.'Mama pressed her hand to her mouth, tears trickling down. 'Oh Lia
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'Mama!' Mila cried out, craning to spot her in the blackness. Papa's hands clamped down, holding one of her legs and one of her arms tight. He turned, Mila felt his head move as he looked into the dark too.'Dan'iss! Dan'iss!' Papa's voice cracked, the sound making a ball of ice form in Mila's gut.From the darkness a sound emerged. Thuds, scrapes and scratching like metal against metal that made Mila's teeth chime.'DAN'ISS!' Papa flared out a ball of energy, light rebounded off the walls of the corridor. Mila cried out, covering her eyes from the blinding glare. In an instant Papa vanished. Mila sat alone on the cold wood floor. The lack of anything or anyone close made Mila roll into a tight ball, eyes closed against her knees.More thumps then another blinding flash snapped out, this one piercing her mind. Mila shrieked at the pain.'Zayck!' Mama's voice sounded wrong, strangled and rough. Mila lifted her forehead off her knees, peeking out.Flashes of light revealed frozen m
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An array of squeals, bells, rattles and shrieks rang out. Face white Papa reached for them as something flashed out from amongst the lock trap, winding around his leg, wrenching him off his feet as it wound back in the blink of an eye.Mama gripped Mila tighter, her voice breaking on a note of despair, 'ZAYCK!'In the centre of the ceiling held by his ankles, hung Papa.Mama's energy holding Mila clutched even tighter as Mama set her on the ground then stood and reached out with both hands toward the lock, her energy glowing. Mila stared, waiting to see what happened.Mama stretched her energy out, probing gently.It touched the first puzzle piece. A clattering of chimes and screeches rang out, sparks flying.In the centre of the room, jerking like a fish caught on a line, Papa made an awful shriek.Mila dropped, hugging her knees to her forehead, stomach and mind sick from that sound.Papa was the bravest, strongest man in the world.He couldn't be caught, be hurting.Who wo
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Now the puzzle looked a third smaller than when she'd stared, but instead of one beginning point to work from there were three. She regarded the three pieces while chewing on the inside of her cheek. Two circular and one rectangle. The rectangle had a large circular opening, about the size of the smaller circle. Mila focused on the larger circle and turned it around, looking for the switch. It looked different to the previous circles she'd worked with, the markings running out from the centre like a starburst. One line caught her eye. With a finger Mila traced down it then jolted when something clicked. She froze. Heart pounding in her ears, she watched the circle break apart, opening at all the lines of the starburst. With another click it moved into motion, each piece folding down on itself and merging with the next. A moment later a tiny gold ball like had been in the first puzzle piece hung before her eyes.Excitement ran through Mila when she realized how the pieces went togeth
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Papa's energy sparked in alarm then Mama's too. Mila twisted to stare back at the way the sounds came from and spotted a bobbing light. Torch light.Mama and Papa kept low and began to move again, almost crawling. Mila crunched up against Papa's back, squinting at first then kept her head down to avoid the lower branches.The sounds of those approaching grew. Papa moved faster, Mama right behind. They scooted up higher, scrambling, and tucked against cold stone. Not a moment later the torches bobbed past, following the track they'd been on.The bobbing lights moved closer then away, and closer again. The voices, questioning but too quiet to make out the words, sounded near.Crouched against the narrow stone ledge, Papa and Mama held hands. The soft touch of their energy surrounded all three of them.The bobbing lights came closer, close enough that Mila saw the faces of those who held them. Five DeNaga men, armed with swords, axes, and clubs.Mila shivered at the sight of the
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Everyone moved. It surprised Mila how many people were here, but so many seemed to be missing too. Mama took her hand. On her other side was her younger cousin Paiga. Normally she annoyed Mila, with all the questions she asked, but the scared expression in her eyes reminded Mila of Addy. She offered her other hand to Paiga, who took it with a tentative smile.The group began to walk.Mila hadn't realized until now how tired she was. She stumbled over the riverbed the rocks stubbing her toes as she held Paiga and Mama's hands. It made tears run down her cheeks, but she didn't stop. On and on, picking her feet up, tripping, Mama's hand stopping her from falling. Paiga tripped and Mila managed to hold her arm high enough to stop her cousin from hitting the stones.'Thanks, Mila,' Paiga sounded like she felt. Ready to cry. So very tired.Around them the adults talked. Mila listened.'Where do we go?''The hidden caves. We can keep underground nearly all the way to the coast.''The
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The air smelled cold, and something else, something Mila found familiar but out of place.'Mama,' she whispered. 'What's that smell?''What smell, lovey?''It smells like,' Mila paused, considering. 'It smells like the kitchen, when cook has fresh rabbits.'Mama didn't say anything but she looked at Papa.'I smell it,' said another voice from within the circle.'Me too.''Carrion?''Perhaps. The scent will carry when the air is still.'Not understanding what "carrion" meant, but glad that the adults appeared to have solved the smell, Mila relaxed a little, nose wrinkling at the sharp edge of that scent.Minutes ticked by as they covered good ground.'We're close,' said the man leading them. A screech flashed past overhead, the group twisting, following the sound.A man shouted.Mila's head snapped in the direction of the shout, just in time to glimpse the man's boots vanishing as something, something with enormous black wings, snatched him up!Shrieks of terror rang out
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