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The door opened again and Kyle strode in, “Is everything alright, Vissy?”
“Ah good, just the male I wanted to sspeak to,” Sarissa’s upper body swiveled on her tail. “Congratulationss, you are the new Vissssigroth of Oceanuss.”
Kyle stared at me open mouthed.
“Queen Sarissa is holding our Vissigroth hostage,” I explained with more patience than I felt.
“And if you want to keep him alive, you will do ass I ssay,” Sarissa stated sending a hateful glare at me.
“For all intentss and purpossess you will be the new Vissssigroth, but you will do exactly what I tell you to do.” She informed Kyle.
Kyle shook his head, “This is not how this works. Nobody will accept me as a new Vissigroth. I don’t have any scales.”
Sarissa waved her hand dismissively through the air, “Minor detailss. We will ssay Vissigroth Myless iss otherwise occupied and you will be hiss sspokespersson. In time we will produce a little Myless complete with sscaless and all will be happy.”
My mind worked feverishly, and so did Kyle’s from the looks of it. He pulled his sword. “Why don’t I just take you hostage instead and we will have a prisoner exchange?”
I liked his idea, hopeful I stared at him, but the icy hand by my heart warned me that this wasn’t the end.
Sarissa laughed. “Oh you maless and your love for weaponss and blood. I ssusspected thiss iss what you would do. To make thiss eassier for you, Leander, I have already chossen my ssuccessssor and sshe iss aware that in this sscenario, the deal will sstill be on the table. Vissssigroth Myless might losse some body partss, but nothing will change, except I will be either your prissoner or dead.” She shrugged as if she didn’t care.
Speechless Kyle and I stared at her.
She stared at me cold and hard through her slivered pupils, “You’re sstill here? I thought I made mysself clear.”
My eyes returned to Kyle but his expression was as stunned as mine and didn’t offer any help.
Without knowing where Sarissa was holding Myles… wait… an idea formed in my head. A crazy, desperate idea, but it warmed my chest enough to push the cold hand out.
“I need more than an hour to get all the humans to leave,” I told Sarissa.
She didn’t respond, only wiggled her fingers suggesting for me to start walking.
“Now, you and I will discussss what you will tell the other vissssigrothss and the susssserayn,” Sarissa ordered Kyle, ignoring me.
“I need to make sure the vissy has transporters available,” Kyle interrupted her.
She slithered in front of him, without a trace of the alluring voice she usually used, she said, “I don’t care how she gets out of here, you are mine now. If you don’t want to be in this position, I will find someone else.”
Kyle opened his mouth to disagree, but I shook my head at him over Sarissa’s shoulder. It was better this way. With her dismissing me like this, I could follow up on the plan that was slowly coming together in my mind. Kyle’s help would have been easier, but I would find someone else and he would keep Sarissa occupied.
It was a desperate plan, if I was wrong about where Sarissa was holding Myles it could mean that she would hurt him or worse. I didn’t think she would follow through with her threat of killing him, at least not yet. For now she still needed him. It was the later that worried me. That and the fact that she didn’t seem concerned that I would bring an entire Leander army down on her.
She had to know that I would plead with the susserayn for help for Myles. She also had to know that the susserayn would grant it.
I doubted Myccael would care if Myles was dead or alive though. He would try to restore him, but in the end he would sacrifice Myles for the greater good of Leander and place another vissigroth in his stead.
I stood outside the closed doors to my suite, tapping my foot, while the dragoons eyed me curiously.
Was this Sarissa’s plan? Did she think that if Myccael put another vissigroth in power in Myles’s stead that she would be able to handle him like she had Myles for so long?
No, she wouldn’t be happy with that. She wanted Oceanus and she wanted it for herself. Kyle would be her puppet for the time being and then she would pretend Myles’s son had been born. But how could his son be born when I was exiled from Oceanus?
That’s when I realized I was never meant to leave Oceanus. Somewhere between here and the transporter an ambush would wait for me, to either take me also prisoner or to kill me out right. This wasn’t about ridding herself of the humans. She could do so herself once she was in charge.
“We need reinforcements. Now!” I turned to the dragoons guarding the door.
Captured by a bunch of sirens. I should have been mortified, instead my emotions ran in a mix between fury and utter astonishment.
