I needed a LIGHT spell.

  For as many times as I went somewhere that plunged me into complete darkness, I had always relied on someone else to bring the spell to help us see.

  “LIGHT!”

  Nothing happened. It’d been a longshot anyway. I still hadn’t figured out how to cast something without knowing the spell while in the Bequeathal Chamber and I wasn’t sure if this place even counted as being a Bequeathal Chamber anymore.

  “MIVE! KLIX!” I almost called out for Harror, but decided that I wasn’t sure if she would get upset with me for being informal while the Scarlets were around.Though if this curse was only designed to hold higher Tier people, then there was one other person who might be able to slip through the bars.

  “RIX!”

  “Sorry.”

  I turned around as the place lit up a little. It was still nothing but a black void for as far as I could see, but there was a little bit of light above the redheaded Shooter. I knew she didn’t like physical contact, but I hugged her anyway. “You’re okay!”

  The golden woman didn’t go as rigid as I thought she would, but she didn’t try to hug me back.

  I let her go. “Sorry, I was just worried when you got caught, that this thing…” I motioned around. “Might have really hurt you.” I eyed her. “But why did you take the hit for Whisper?”

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  “He was the last one standing.” Rix shrugged. “None of those Adventurers that were working with the Temple were Tier Five, so I knew he’d be able to handle them, plus…” She looked around. “I knew you’d be his top priority.”

  “Wait, those Adventurers were working with the Temple?” I shook my head. “At least we have an idea where to start looking at who leaked the locator for Gesai’s RV.”

  “That was the Chief Priest.”

  “You already figured that out?” I chuckled. Of course she’d do something like that.

  “I thought that since I needed to stay away from the Goddesses, I’d do some investigating. Over the last decade, High Priest Malk has been doing position changes regularly. As far as I could tell, everyone there is loyal to him.” Rix swallowed. “I’m really sorry. Malk and his top aides had all left already, so I assumed that the demon was just wanting to join them. I thought it was a genuine offer.”

  “It’s okay.” I shook my head. “But how did they find you?”

  “I…” Rix looked away. “Tried to kill him.”

  Of course she had.

  “He shouldn’t have been that high of level, but when I couldn’t assassinate him, he offered me a deal instead of fighting me. He said that when he could get away, he’d burn some blue smoke out the main chimney of the Temple and when he did that, I needed to get you into the Bequeathal Chamber as fast as possible to finalize the deal of safe passage in exchange for telling you how to wake up Mive. That was over a week ago. I wanted to talk to you about it, but going under the tree canceled my invisibility and I didn’t think it was safe to just walk up to a building where the Goddesses were staying.”

  I put my hand on her shoulder. “It’ll be okay.” I looked around. “Maybe between the two of us we can find some way to…”

  “A HUNTER?” The words almost came out as a purr.

  I swallowed. I’d really hoped that Mive was the one who found us first.

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