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CHAPTER 29 — Escape Route

Author: Mercy V.
last update Last Updated: 2025-12-30 21:41:46

“Open it, Princess Lunaris.”

Crowe’s voice slid through the metal like a knife through cloth.

Every instinct I had screamed *don’t*.

So did every rule.

*Rule Three: evaluation equals detention.*

Daire’s hand pressed harder against the dead plate, muscles standing out along his forearm. The runes didn’t so much as flicker.

“The door's not going to obey you,” Kieran said, voice low and controlled. “He’s got a manual override. Probably tripped a bar in the wall when he realized where you were.”

“Then we break the override,” Daire snapped.

“With what?” I asked. “Your charm?”

“Better than your sarcasm,” he shot back.

Outside, bootfalls thudded closer. Muffled orders. The metallic clink of equipment being shifted. If they couldn’t coax us out, they’d come in.

“We don’t have time,” Kieran said. “Crowe’s not going to stand out there and give us speeches all night while you argue with architecture.”

“He wants the door open,” I said slowly. “He doesn’t want to blow it. Too much risk of damaging
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