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Fear shot through me at the man’s words. Being separated from Abrax was a possibility we’d planned for, but that didn’t make the idea appealing. Anything could happen to him when he was inside the building.
“All right.” There was something weird in Abrax’s voice, but I couldn’t put my finger on what it was, either he was concerned that we were being separated too, or he was worried that he wasn’t going to get back in their good graces after all.
“Anything else we should know?”
“She had this on her.” He held out the decoy amulet we’d decided to use.
The man in front of him snatched it free and turned it over in his hands. “What does it do?”
Abrax shrugged. “No idea. I thought she’d get suspicious if I asked, but I didn’t want it interfering with the suppression spells. Not after last time.”
The man chuffed, clearly not impressed by the reminder of everything that happened with Ptah. I didn’t blame him to an extent. What had happened there was incredibly embarrassing for a cult that claimed to be as powerful as they were.
“Anything else on her?” the man asked.
“I took a knife from her when I loaded her into the van, but I didn’t see anything else at the time.” A clever response. He wasn’t lying and saying he’d searched me, but he was also carefully avoiding saying he hadn’t. If we were lucky, they’d just assume that he had searched me and we wouldn’t have any problems.
If theydiddecide to search me, then it was going to be an issue. I had no idea if there was going to be another way for me to kill the god’s soul. But I’d cross that bridge if it came to it. Right now, I was more concerned by the fact I was gagged and cuffed in the back of a van, unable to go anywhere.
“Put the blindfold on her,” the man by Abrax said.
Abrax nodded and headed towards me. I struggled with my bonds a little, trying to still appear groggy from what he was supposed to have dosed me with.
He met my gaze, but I couldn’t read the expression in his eyes. Without saying anything, he lifted the blindfold and tied it behind my head. Though even without being able to feel it, I could tell that his knot needed work. I’d have to teach him how to do a better one if we ever needed a blindfold again.
All of my thoughts fled as I realised how cut off I felt without the use of my hands, eyes, or mouth. At least I could still feel my magic coursing through me. If it came to it, I could shift into a snake and get out of everything within a few seconds.
Though doing that before I was alone would defeat the entire point of our plan even if it felt foolish to let this just happen to me.
Abrax’s hands touched the cuffs around my wrists.
“What are you doing?” Willas demanded.
“Checking they’re on right,” Abrax responded gruffly.
“Be quick about it.”
Fingers slipped into my palm along with something small and cold. Understanding dawned on me.
Abrax had slipped me the key to my cuffs. I tightened my grasp, brushing my fingers against his as I did. I wished we could say something to one another, but with no way of knowing who was listening, I knew we couldn’t.
“Done,” Abrax said, stepping back.
“Good. Take her away.”
Arms scooped me up from the back of the van. My entire body went into fight mode and it was all I could do to hold back the desire to struggle. But I was supposed to be drugged right now and revealing that I wasn’t could have dire consequences for Abrax, something I wasn’t willing to risk. He was in enough danger as it was.
I tried to count the steps as the man carrying me made his way into the building, but it was virtually impossible to without the use of all of my senses. I just had to hope Abrax would be able to figure out where they’d taken me otherwise I was going to end up using a lot of my time trying to figure out where I was.
This plan was starting to sound a little more foolish than I’d first thought.
It wasn’t until the man set me down on what felt like a prison cot that I realised we’d reached our destination. The clunk of a door closing and the scrape of the key in the lock followed.
I sucked in a breath and listened as intently as I could to try and work out if there was someone in the room with me. Hearing nothing, I gave in to the urge to shift, using my magic to shake my restraints as I did, while keeping my clothes firmly on my body, including the multitude of useful items I had stashed in them.
My body contorted until it was in the form of a large python. I surveyed the room, flicking my tongue. Thankfully, my judgement had been sound, and there was no one else here with me. All I had to do now was figure out how to get out of here, find Abrax, and then destroy the soul of a god.
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