The Rejected True Heiress
Callum stayed close beside me with his hand on my arm to guide me, Zane a step behind, quiet and morose.
The stairs finally ended, and a narrow passageway opened up into a small chamber in which was set a circular stone door. Around the seams of the door was a shimmering energy, a magical lock I supposed.
“This is as far as we go,” one of the students said as the other pressed her small hands to the center of the door. The stone began to glow around them as she murmured words under her breath, ripples of light flowing outwards until they met the light around the seams. “It’ll stay open a while. But when it shuts, it shuts, and we won’t open it again. So don’t be on the wrong side of it.”