“You don’t know anything about this place,” he said. “There is no way to find your way around without someone to guide you.”
“Rilen…I was allowed more freedom in Savion’s palace.”
His stare was hard but thoughtful. It was strong enough to make me wait for him to say something. “Let me wake Roran, and we’ll go. But only where he and I are approved to walk. I will not have this entire enclave of vampires bearing down on us in rage.”
“You don’t have to wake me,” Roran said, appearing in the light from the hall. “If you hadn’t stopped her, I would have.”
“We’re going to get in trouble.”
Roran sighed deeply. “When don’t we, whereilatiis concerned.”
“That’s not kind,” I said.
Rilen put a hand to my cheek. “You are trouble in a beautiful package, Kimber. Let’s go for this ill-advised walk.”
The twins stepped out of the room and pulled the door closed. Roran pointed out the direction they were permitted to walk, and we set off at a leisurely pace. They flanked me and crowded in a bit.
Taken from my world because of who I was, these vampires also excluded me from their war room because of who I was.
There was little charity in my heart at the moment.
Since Roran and Rilen were guiding me through the hewn rock fortress, I let my eyes wander and glance around, looking at details and down other hallways. There were very few people about, and those were sleepy or sneaking off to be with a lover or find a midnight snack.
Food…or another source of nourishment.
Thankfully, Rilen and Roran had satisfied that for me.
My gaze slipped down a hall to my right, and I saw a pulse of light.
A crystal.
I froze in my tracks and waited.
Another pulse of multicolored light.
Did my Breaker’s magic work here?
I watched.
Another pulse, this one beckoning me on.
My feet moved of their own accord. If this was Breaker’s magic, I had to follow.
“No.” Roran’s hand wrapped around my arm. “No, no, no, Kimber. No. We’re not going to leave the areas we’re permitted, and we are not permitted down there.”
I blinked and looked up at him. “The crystals are pulsing.”
The groan from Rilen was audible. “Kimber…”
“I’m the Breaker, right? Why wouldn’t the earth here talk to me, as well?”
“Shit,” Roran mumbled. “Kimber, leave it. Just for now. We’ll explain it to Lord Cato and Lord Xenon, and get permission to follow the crystals to—”
The light thrummed again.
Roran scrubbed a hand down his face. “Well, damn, I saw that.”
“Brother, this isn’t going to happen. I’m the impulsive one. We can’t go down there. Let’s get Lord Cato—”
