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“You thought they may be in on it?”
He nods. “I thought it may be a possibility. I decided to search the palace first. So far, I’ve found nothing that would?—”
Something clatters around the corner, making me freeze. Oryn doesn’t think twice as he grabs my arm and pulls me down the hall in the opposite direction.
We move quickly, finding ourselves in another dark, quiet hallway.
“I think we lost them,” Oryn says, glancing back.
My mind mulls over what he just told me, realizing that maybe there is a specific reason why they took his sister.
“Is your sister a Caligo?” I ask, and he immediately understands what I am asking.
“Yes,onlyCaligo. I’m the only one that’s a little…different.” He gives me a quick look before glancing away.
“Does anyone else know about you?” Maybe they found out about him and thought his sister was the same. Or maybe they are using her to lure him out.
“No. No one knows. Not a soul,” he says before frowning.
“Then why would they have taken her? Why her? Why not?—”
“Others?” He nods. “She’s not the only one. There’s more. More women going missing. My sister was not the first, and I fear she will not be the last.”
Ice fills my veins. This changes everything. How long has this been going on? Is it just Caligo women and women in general, or is it males too? I’m about to ask him when I hear footsteps sound out down the corridor from us, and it forces us to get moving.
Finding a small black spiraling staircase, we move swiftly down it, only to come to another damp and dark hall similar to the passageways I was brought through to the cells.
Halfway down the passageway, Oryn stops and turns to me. “I know you have no reason to trust me, but I need to know why you are here.”
I stay silent, wondering what he has deduced so far.
“My only reasoning is that you have also come here under a guise for something else. That you do not care for the winning position of a guard, and that whatever it is that forced your hand means a great deal to you.”
I search his face for any ill-intent or deceit but find nothing so obvious. And I decide to give him some of my trust for now and hope it does not come back to bite me.
“There is something killing the Sidus. Creatures that are slipping past the shield,” I tell him.
Oryn’s eyes widen in shock and fear. “Why haven’t you told anyone? The Caligo?—”
“Already know.” My words stop him silent. “They know and they do not care. At least not about the Sidus.”
Oryn’s mouth drops open in shock. But then a spark of dread fills his eyes.
“These… creatures? Do they leave any residue?” The fear seeps into his face, turning it ashen.
I shake my head, stopping his downward spiral. “Nothing. It is as if they are made from smoke. They kill and leave no evidence behind.”
He releases a harsh breath, rubbing his chest. “Then it can’t be them.” He looks at me. “Taking the missing women, I mean.”
“No, it doesn’t sound like it,” I tell him, hoping we are right.
He nods his head again, more to himself, before his eyes land on my bracelets.
“What are those cuffs you wear? I have a feeling they are not your normal attire.”
I glance down at them, still feeling the lack of warmth from my missing abilities. “A gift from the lieutenant. One that inhibits me from using my Sidus abilities.”
Oryn winces before releasing another harsh breath. “I understand why the Sidus see us as nothing but their enemywhen you have people like the lieutenant making it look like we are.”
