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CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND FORTY THREE

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Celeste's pov

I threw myself through the nearest door and slammed it shut behind me. My hands scrabbled for a lock or a bolt or anything that would hold but there was nothing. Just smooth wood and iron hinges.

Mother was gone. The shadows had taken her. I heard her scream one last time before the door cut off the sound and now there was only silence and the thundering of my own heartbeat.

I pressed my back against the door and waited for the shadows to break through. I waited in fesr for those terrible hollow faces to appear and feel my life draining away into the darkness.

But nothing happened.

Slowly I became aware of my surroundings. The smell hit me first. Bread, herbs and something roasting. I was not in the dungeon anymore. The floor beneath my feet was wood not stone. Light filtered through high windows. Real daylight not torchlight.

I was in the kitchens.

I must have found a service stairwell. Some passage the servants used to bring food down to the guards. I stumbled away fro
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