Diarmuid had just proved he could make me do whatever he wanted, and he’d already confirmed that Orpheus wanted to kill me.
But there was a range to his powers. Assuming I wasn’t locked into this luxurious suite, I should probably find the cavern where I was staying, get all those camping things Sadie packed for me, and take my chances in the Pleistocene forest.
But how would I even get into my room and get out again?
I stood up on steadier legs and started following the path of furs toward the doors, but my hands shook as the adrenaline that had nowhere to go during the godspeaking finally flooded my system.
Where could I hide from beings that could read my heat signature pattern and apparently loved to hunt and eat humans?
How was I going to get out of?—
I stopped when I spotted something on the wall between the table I’d been forcibly sat down at and the exit I was trying to reach.
A door.
A giant door.
It stood at least twenty-five feet tall. Plenty of room for a dragon. About a foot above my head, there was a keyhole.
My heart sped up, even though this door was in a wall, not the ceiling where I’d expected it after my tour of the modern version of this fortress.
But directly above the keyhole gleamed a symbol I recognized.
A sort of dragon crown with an emerald embedded into it. The same as the head on my key.
The one that saidfinnt mei tür.
Find my door.
Chest thrumming, I craned my neck to look up at the larger-than-life slab of wood, knowing in my gut…
I’d just found what the key was looking for.
Behind the Door
[From Log Q-1000 of Fenrir Prime]
Things I do not like about the female wolf who has fallen through my fertility portal….
1. She is entirely too clever.
2. She causes my variants to act out of order.
3. I cannot bring myself to end her. Even for our own good.
The chair’s job,as it turned out, wasn’t quite done. A few moments after dragging it over to give me a couple more feet of height, I hefted the brass key to the keyhole and said a little prayer as I fit it into the lock.
It fit. But would it turn? Let me in?
TH-THWUNK!The muffled boom of a large door’s locking apparatus releasing answered my query.
Then I pushed the wood open to reveal…
I blinked.
Actually, I wasn’t quite sure what I was looking at.
A huge storage closet? A strange kind of library?
