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I tasted her sweet lips once more and then got dressed.
“What about you?” she said. “What are you going to do?”
“I’m going to light the beacon,” I said. “Only a Taw can do it. I’m going to do what I should have done weeks ago.”
I straightened up and looked her in the eye.
“I’m going to start a war.”
The guards broke from either side of my bed-chamber the moment I stepped out. They were taken by surprise as I left the room and marched down the hallway. Right before I turned the corner, I saw the door of my room open and the gorgeous creature I’d spent the night with snuck out.
I knew I could rely on her. She would carry out my directions to the letter, free the prisoner, and this whole sorry situation would, finally, draw to a close.
At first, I hadn’t recognized the bent and twisted figure who’d been wrestled into my room. How could I? I doubted anyone would have recognized him. He looked nothing like he once had but there was something there in his eyes, that flash that told me everything.
Now all I had to do was carry out the message he’d scrawled on that piece of paper.
I had to go light the beacon.
The people were ready.
Once they saw the rallying cry of House Taw, they would rise and battle their conquerors. They would be victorious. There was no doubt in my mind about that.
And still, the thought of losing just one innocent Titan life weighed heavily on my shoulders.
I marched down the hallways as fast as my legs could carry me. For the first time in weeks, I felt alive and full of energy. First, I needed to assemble the right men around me. The most trusted and loyal.
I met Zes when I reached the foot of the stairs on the first floor. He gave an order to a junior guard who took off at a run. Zes saw me coming, turned, and saluted. He scanned my body language and knew something was afoot.
“My lord?” he said.
He wore a distinct look of wariness in his eyes. He was probably still disgruntled from my earlier order not to question the prisoner. In time, he would learn it was the right decision.
But not right now.
“Come with me,” I said. “We have a mission.”
“Should I alert the men?” Zes said.
“No,” I said. “This doesn’t require all of us. Just a handful of our best.”
I clapped a hand on Zes’s shoulder.
“Today marks the beginning of a new age, my friend,” I said. “It is only right you are by my side when we usher it in.”
Zes tried to read my expression but there was no way he could ascertain what I’d decided to do.
Even I wasn’t sure I was ready for it!
Sometimes you had to begin even when you weren’t fully prepared. You would figure things out on the fly and hope everything worked out.
Zes marched alongside me.
“Perhaps if I knew what we were doing I could better prepare,” he said.
“There’s no need,” I said. “It’s a simple mission.”
“Then we might need the proper equipment? The right tools?”
