Chapter 10

The gloomy and old air wafted into her lungs, filling her with despair. Aynyra pulled a torch off the wall and lit it with a few matches that lay beside the holder. Silently she crept down the stone pathways until she came to a chest hidden in a dark corner. Aynyra placed the torch on its holster and opened the chest. She took off her dress and placed it in the chest, along with another dress she has sitting there. Quickly, she changed into her street clothes and opened another compartment in the chest. Inside lay a leather belt, which she strapped around her hips. Beneath it was two curved daggers that were then tucked safely into the belt. Aynyra closed the lid of the chest and pulled the torch off the wall, continuing to glide down the halls swiftly. After walking for an hour and several turns, she came across a ladder leading up to a sewage lid. Aynyra dropped the torch into the water that trickled beside her, letting it glide down the tunnel. A trick she picked up from stalking