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I turn and glance around at our next obstacle, my eyes widening when I see what it is.
“What is that?” Oryn asks, the horror etched in his voice.
“A pit,” I tell him on autopilot as my mind tries to fully comprehend what I am seeing.
“Yes, butwhatare those?” He points straight at the familiar group of creatures inside it, clawing at the edges, trying to reach us.
My senses sharpen and the ice in my veins cool.
The guards don’t just know about the dark creatures; they capture them to train against.
CHAPTER 21
Rage boils up inside me, threatening to unleash and seek out each and every Caligo guard.
Sidus havedied. They have mourned their fathers, mothers, brothers, and sisters. And all while the Caligo play games with the dark creatures up in their mountains.
They could have told us about them. Helped us trap them like they have done so easily. We could have learned about them and better defended ourselves.
But they chose to hide this. To keep whatever they have learned to themselves. And for what? For the hate and distrust they have for the Sidus?
It doesn’t make sense why they hate us so much and why they go to these extremes. Apart from existing, we have never done anything to make them this way.
There is no rhyme or reason to it. No logic that makes sense.
“What are those things?” Oryn asks.
“Dark creatures,” I tell Oryn as I move forward with purpose, needing an outlet for this blazing rage.
“Wait—”
“Aim for the head,” I tell him before I jump into the pit and strike, punching the nearest dark creature and spinning around to block and kick the next.
I spot a discarded sword on the ground and pick it up, slashing, slicing, and stabbing into every creature that gets near me.
I’m so lost to the rage and fury inside me that I let the need for violence seek out each and every dark creature as I imagine them all as the guards who put them here.
The guards who hide the creatures’ existence before capturing them and bringing them here to toy with.
With that thought, my attack grows more vicious and ruthless, and I decapitate and eviscerate each and every last one of them until there is nothing but dissipating black smoke around me.
Breathing heavily, I turn, ready to attack movement from behind, but freeze when Oryn jumps a step back and raises his hands in surrender.
“I’m not going to pretend to know what this is about. But from the look on your face, I can tell it is personal. Tell me what it is you need help with, and I will.”
The kindness and offer to help me without question after seeing what I just did slowly quiets the rage inside me, bringing it to a soft hum in the back of my mind.
I throw the sword onto the ground, not wanting the Caligo to see me with it and find an excuse to kick me out of the trial, and glance around the pit.
It’s empty; not a drop of blood or shard of evidence is left from my attack or that the dark creatures were ever here. No other competitor behind us will ever know they existed either.
“Let’s just continue on ahead.” I move to the other side of the pit and up and out of it as I try to gather myself and my thoughts.
I’m so lost in my mind that I jolt and whip around to Oryn when he speaks.
“I think we’re starting to loop back around.” Oryn is scanning our surroundings, and I follow his lead, glancing back and around us.
He’s right. It looks like the landscape and layout is turning to move in the opposite direction we’ve been going in.
