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“Ready to try dancing again?”
“How do you do that?”
“It’s really not that hard, if you’d just pay attention and follow my lead.”
“No, I mean how are you all so impossibly strong?”
“We’re not.”
“You just lifted me out of the chair like it was nothing.”
“That doesn’t make me impossibly strong.”
“Then what does it make you?”
“Much larger and stronger than you, but that’s not exactly hard given how small you are.”
“I’m not that—”
The words die in my mouth as something bangs against the door, and I let out a scream of surprise instead.
“What the hell?”
Luci crosses over to the bedroom doors. Taking the keys from his pocket, he moves to unlock them only find they won’t even enter the keyholes. He glances back at me for a split second, and I swear I see fear flicker across his face.
Grabbing one of the handles, he tries to force it, but again he’s unable to make the door open.
“Damn it, Seven,” he shouts, “are you out there? What the hell are you doing? Come back!”
Of course, Seven doesn’t respond, even if he is out in the hall.
Luci grabs both handles and rattles the doors as hard as he can, his muscles straining to the point where the veins begin to pop up against the surface of his skin.
“Luci, what’s wrong?” I ask, my own panic starting to rise as his aggravation grows.
He slams a palm against the door, the sound nearly making me jump out of my own skin.
“Damn it! Damn it all to hell,” Luci mutters, pressing his forehead to the door.
“Luci?” I press again, taking a tentative step toward him despite every single cell in my body telling me not to.
“We’re locked in.”
“I’m always locked in here,” I say. “Why is that such a problem now?”
“You don’t understand.”
“Then tell me, so I can.”
Luci’s jaw tightens as he slowly turns to look over his shoulder at me.
“Explaining would only make things worse.”
I throw up my hands in exasperation before crossing them over my chest.
“Suit yourself. I’m trapped here day after day, so I don’t see why it’s suddenly such a big for you. I’m sure Dante will realize we’re stuck and let us out before too long.”
“I wouldn’t be too sure about that.”
