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“Yeah,” she sighed wistfully. “Sometimes, when I was missing you too much, I’d go there. Just to sit under it and remember.”
I pulled her closer. “You never gave up on me, did you?”
She shook her head. “Not even for a second. Even when everyone else said you were gone, I just… I knew. I felt it.”
Silence enveloped us once again, but this time it was different.
It was comfortable, reassuring.
“What happened to that Champion who Claimed you?” I asked. “He’s one of the most feared prisoners here. Last I saw, he was on his way to having the surprise of his life.”
She laughed, the sound musical. “He got that all right… even if it wasn’t quite the surprise he was expecting. Let’s just say he’s been… neutralized. He won’t be a problem.”
I raised an eyebrow, impressed. “You really have become quite the force to be reckoned with, haven’t you?”
She shrugged modestly. “I had to be. For you.”
We lay like that for a while, lost in the warmth of each other’s embrace.
But I could sense that she was holding something back.
Her fingers were tracing patterns on my chest, hesitant, like she was gathering courage.
“I have a plan, Kuana,” she said finally, her voice tinged with determination.
“Oh?”
She nodded. “A way out of here. For both of us. I would never have come here if I didn’t have a way out.”
I seriously doubted that.
If she couldn’t come up with an exit plan, she would have come anyway and figured one out while she was here.
I could hear the conviction in her voice.
But a cold dread started to seep into me, like ink spilling across a parchment.
“I told you, I can’t leave here,” I said, trying to keep my voice steady.
She looked up at me, her eyes shining with a fierce light. “You have to. You can’t stay here forever. I’ve got connections, people on the outside who can help. We just have to trust each other and follow the plan.”
I swallowed hard, my throat suddenly dry. “Violet…”
She silenced me with a finger on my lips. “You’ve been here long enough. This is our chance, Kuana. I don’t know what happened in the past. One day you’ll tell me about it. And even if you don’t, it doesn’t matter. But we can get out of here. Don’t you want that?”
Every fiber of my being screamed ‘yes’.
But there were things she didn’t know, couldn’t know.
Choices I’d made, paths I’d been forced down…
The prison, for all its horrors, was one of the safest, most well-defended places in the galaxy.
“I…” I started, then faltered, searching for the right words.
She looked at me, her gaze probing, searching. “What is it?”
Closing my eyes, taking a deep breath, I whispered the truth. “I cannot leave, Violet.”
