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But I have no other choice if I want to find a way out of here.
Shaking my wayward thoughts aside, I step forward, ready to see what lies beyond it.
After waiting another moment to listen for any sound, I push it open slowly, releasing a sigh of relief when I spot an empty stairway with no guards in sight.
My ascending steps are hasty yet silent while I stay alert. Halting at the top, I face a plain brown-and-cream door, one a lot more ornate than the prison below. A small shard of hope makes its way into my chest.
Not allowing myself to worry over what may lie behind it, I push it open and smile to myself when I spot the familiar large corridor of the main palace.
Arches with shimmering lights hanging on each side guide my path.
Stepping forward, I glance around, keeping my senses open and alert for the slightest of noises. All I need is the guards to catch me, and then this will all be for nothing.
The shimmering lights along the arches shine bright as I make my way past them. At night, the palace looks like something the Sidus would create. A land full of twinkling stars that drift along the darkness of the cool night.
After a few moments of following the long arches, I come to a large open area with three other long halls trailing off in different directions. None of them give me any hint as to what may lie ahead of each.
Taking a deep breath, I follow my instincts and start my way down the corridor on my left.
Passing the long hallways, I ignore their decorative features, making sure to keep watch for any guards coming my way. Moving to the spiral staircase, I peek over, and my gaze is immediately drawn to the expanse of extravagance below.
Although extravagant and eye-catching, it gives me no clue as to how to find another way out.
Sighing to myself, I continue on, but time starts to blur as the halls become a labyrinth. One so endless that any hope for finding a hidden way out of the palace is slowly waning. I come to another hall with rows of doors, each closed, with no sound from behind as I edge past them.
Coming upon another corridor that opens up, I veer to the right and decide to give it one last shot before I make my way back to my cell.
After a couple of minutes with nothing but more grandeur and doors, I’m about to turn around when I hear a loud chuckle echo down the hall, halting my search.
I whip around, looking for someplace to hide. Choosing a door to my left, I silently open it and slip inside. Glancing around, I see it’s another hallway with a small staircase. A sigh of relief leaves my lips as I descend the stairs, which bring me out to an open corridor.
Large paintings hang on the walls. Portraits of what must be the royals who have come before me. Their eyes follow me as I make my way down the hall when whispers and a familiar light draw my attention.
There is no mistaking what type of light it is nor the draw I feel toward it.
A Sidus light. Which must mean there is another Sidus in the palace.
I quickly follow it, but when I turn the corner, I freeze and my entire body grows taut with what lies before me.
The brown-haired man from the throne room, the one who stood up for me, has his hands outstretched, one wielding shadows while the other directs light. ASiduslight.
A wielder of both light and dark, and something that I never thought was possible. The thought that there may be more than just me and now him out there starts to unravel something inside me.
His light grows, expanding around the door from the other side. A gasp slips past my lips at how easily he wields both abilities together at the same time. He whips around, his shadows and light quickly dispersing, his eyes widening in fear when he spots me.
“It’s not what it… I mean, what you saw…”
There was no denying what I saw. “I saw you using a Sidus light and Caligo shadows.”
“Yes… but, I mean, no.” He shakes his head as his face grows pale. But I am the last person he needs to worry about finding out his secret.
“How are you both?” I ask, needing to know everything about him and where he came from. Are there more of us?
“Both?” he asks.
“Both Sidus and Caligo. Were you born with both abilities? Or did they show up later?”
I was born with mine, but maybe they manifested differently in others.
