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Aamori quickly shook off whatever her issue had been and she entered into a screaming match with her son. Her arms flailed wildly and she pushed up on her toes.
“You are not house leader! This is not your call to make!”
“Sorry, mother. Until we get this sorted out and you can prove you’re not coerced by the enemy house, I’m inserting myself as temporary house leader. Your counsel has already approved.” Theon crossed his arms and watched her lose her shit.
I started to step forward, but someone caught my arm. When I glanced back, it was one of the guards who had been close to us on the wall. I reared back my fist, ready to punch his fucking lights out. We would not be imprisoned again dammit.
Except Yunez, my crazy old squirrelly man, Yunez caught my hand.
“Do not fight,” he whispered in my ear. “The guards are following Theon’s orders, not Aamori’s. If we fight, we cause a different kind of war.”
A different kind of war my ass. This was already war and titty-hole Theon was throwing away his best allies.
“To the dungeon,” the guard towering over me growled at the others.
“No one in or out,”the not very nice guard gripping my arm said to the woman outside the cell before he tossed me in.
I grunted as Egan landed on my back. Nato fell on top of him, then the others followed in quick succession. These guards were so gentle to throw us all in a Fennin pile. Not.
The cell door slammed shut. The woman waved her hand and the lock clicked into place.
For every movie I’d watched with a dark, dank, moldy dungeon, Aamori or whoever built this place, must have watched the same ones. Because this was so cliché it wasn’t funny.
Dark gray moss grew over the broken stones and rusty manacles hung off the wall. Oh wait, there were actually a couple people attached to the manacles on the far side of the cell. How long had they been here? A while from the looks of it.
We could at least see through the bars, so we weren’t completely isolated. If we’d had to stay in Toste’s tower for a longer duration, it would have been torture.
“What are the chances that the prisoner in your vision was one of us?” Nato asked as he gripped one of the bars above his head and stared down one of the guards posted outside. There were four in total.
One met his stare with a passive face. The others did a very poor job of pretending not to see us.
“I don’t think her vision was about us.” Rand paced the floor as he checked out every corner of the cell.
“Well?” Sage asked.
When I glanced at him, he only had eyes for Yunez.
“Well, what?” Yunez held his hands up nonchalantly.
“How did this happen? What does this mean? Who was the person in Issy’s vision?” He fired question after question.
Yunez sighed and walked over to where I was still sprawled on the floor and dropped down next to me. “You are asking these questions of me as if I have the answers. I unfortunately do not.”
“Can they hear us?” I nodded at the guards.
“No, I placed a barrier around us.” Rand waved a hand while pacing.
“Okay, take the sight out of it. What does it mean that Theon had the authority to throw us in here?” Sage continued. “You’ve been playing the political game for forever and a day. Give us your best guess.”
Jari nodded like Sage voiced his very thoughts.
“I believe we can call this a coup. And no, it is not in our favor. Theon was always a little shit.” Yunez shrugged like this unfortunate turn of events was akin to getting a tub of stale popcorn at the movies. Unfortunate and a nuisance, but not deadly.
Nato turned from the bars and took up the other piece of nice stone next to me.
“Theon has always been pompous and arrogant. It wouldn’t surprise me if he has been planning this for a long time.” Nato tugged on my wrist until I turned my hand up and threaded my fingers with his.
Moving his thumb over the back of my hand he murmured, “so soft.” Then to the greater group, “Will the other house leaders stand for this?”
