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“And you’ve made the monster angry. Start talking.”
“I don’t—I don’t know anything else.”
I open my mouth.
“I swear it!” he shouts.
I cock my head to the side.
“My man didn’t take anything out of the king’s study. He could only tell me what he saw. Some sort of device and a note in Kalligan’s own writing, depicting what it does. You already know I’m not lying about it. I’ve told the truth while under your abilities.”
I’m more frustrated than before. I can’t trust my enemy over my own father.
But after what Father did, threatening to take out my eye because my voice would still work without it—
He’s only under pressure from the upcoming voyage. He wouldn’t really do it.
But have you ever known him to make an idle threat?
How can I question him? After everything he’s done for me?
You mean the beatings and imprisonment?
No! He raised me. He trained me. He made me unstoppable.
He made you his loyal pet.
I growl.
“You!” I snap at Vordan. “You put these thoughts in my head.”
He raises himself up to his full, unimpressive height, one of his legs bent awkwardly behind him. “I could not create doubt where there wasn’t already a seed planted.”
That’s it.
Enough of this.
There’s only one way to get rid of the uncertainty once and for all.
Chapter 6
“YOU WANT ME TOhelp you break in to your father’s study?”
“Yes.”
“All right, then,” Riden says.
I wait, expecting more. When he doesn’t say anything, I ask, “That’s it? You don’t have any questions for me?” No patronizing words to throw in my face? No conditions or stipulations? NoI-told-you-sos?
“I overheard your interrogation with Vordan, remember? If it were me, I’d do the same thing.”
I realize then that he’s not going to lord this over my head. He’s not smirking at me the way Vordan did. Not pleased with himself or pleased by my own pain.
He wants to help.
Riden is more confusing than ever.
But I don’t have time to think on it.
