I nodded nervously. He moved toward the black curtain and the pink light. “Wait! Why can only a Titan fetch the elixir?”
His head swiveled to look back at me; his expression was like he wanted to rip my head clean off my body. “Seriously? You want a lesson in magical artifacts right now?”
I winced. “Okay, maybe we can chat about this later...”
He met my stare with one that was unreadable. “Just stay here. Understand?”
I nodded.
“Say you won’t touch anything,” he pushed.
Geeze with this guy. #NoTrust“I won’t touch anything!” I spat.
He took off behind the curtain while I stayed where I was.
Don’t touch anything. Not a thing.
I’m not stupid.
After a full two minutes of standing there, I started to worry. Feeling a tug at our bond, I moved one step closer.
“Dude, you okay?” I called out into the dark curtain opening.
No reply. He couldn’t have gone that far or I would have felt it through the bond. Right?
Shit. What if he’d been caught in a booby-trap or somecreaturehad gotten him?
At the thought of creatures, I suddenly spun around, my heart in my throat.
“Cronus!” I shouted, a bit louder this time.
Nothing.
Fuck that. I burst forward, walking quickly along the path to the curtain, suddenly convinced that I was being followed by some terrifying monster. I went around a pile of golden daggers and was about to part the curtain when a glowing box caught my eye to the right.
Maisey...
A female voice whispered from the box.
What the…?
I dropped my hands and inched closer to the box, turning away from the curtain. “Hello?” I whisper-screamed.
The box was made of black granite, and something super shiny was under the lid. Shafts of glowing golden light were peeking out.
“Maisey!”This time the voice was stronger, more insistent.
Chills broke out on my arms as I took one step closer, leaning directly over the box. I had no intention of touching the thing, because I was not, in fact, an idiot, when a sliver of my hair fell from my head and landed across the black lid.
Okay, no big deal, I’ll just—
The lid sprang open, shattering light across the space.
“Fuck.” I didn’t even have time to back up out of the light. A black inky blob leapt from the box and wrapped around my abdomen tightly like a snake.
“CRONUS!” I shrieked bloody murder. Where was that motherfucker? Had he portaled to another dimension?
My eyes flicked down to see the box was now gone, completely vanished. A glowing silver necklace lay on the ground where it once had been.
