Chapter 119

CAMILLA’S P.O.V

I watched as she walked out of the room and I waited until she had shut the door behind her before I turned to Ryker with a teasing smile. “Looks like you have a new fan.”

He rolled his eyes at me and turned back to the table. “We were discussing something very important before she came.”

I raised my hands in mock surrender. “I guess it is settled about the night lock. I can’t take it unless we are very certain that we will see him. Where do we keep it until then?”

“We can keep it in one of the offices or in our room,” Ryker began but I shook my head. There was no guarantee that no one would keep it safer than he would, the problem was that everyone else would expect it.

“If someone were to go looking for it, that would be the first place that they would look,” I dropped my voice to a whisper in case of any more eavesdroppers. “I think Christine should hide it, probably in the same place that you hid the map of the tunnels. No one else can know where it is, not even us.”

“Are you sure?” she asked and I nodded. “What if you need to get it and I’m not there?”

“We will deal with that if it ever comes to it but right now, I don’t want to risk it getting taken. I’m not saying we have any spies in here but I am just trying to be safe.”

She thought about it for a second before nodding. “Fine, but what if you kept some in Ryker’s office like he suggested. Just a small amount of it so that if anyone goes looking for it, they will think that they found everything and they wouldn’t expect you to have any more hidden away.”

I realized that was a brilliant idea and we all agreed to it. Ryker and I took the small quantity of the berries and hid it safely in his office. Fortunately, they had a long shelf life so I wasn’t worried about them getting spoiled within the next week or so. It gave us a little time to figure out how we wanted to do this. If it exceeded a week then I had no idea how we were going to deal with it or handle the situation. Ryker tried to assure me that everything was going to be fine but I couldn’t ignore the nagging feeling that something was going to go terribly wrong.

He met with the guards while I went out for training, Loris wasn’t out there so I trained on my own. I had come to find it relaxing rather than a painful reminder of all I couldn’t do. There was just something about the water that soothed my nerves. It was almost like an extension of myself and I loved it. I didn’t know how long I stayed there, I just knew that I was moving. I felt formidable and untouchable for the first time in a

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long time. I let the water slide back into the stream and was about to leave when I decided to try something.

After Loris had realized I wasn’t making any progress in getting water out of the moisture in the air or out of the ground, he had decided to let it be and he focused on other aspects of my powers. I looked around to make sure no one was looking and crouched down to the ground. I could feel the water- I always had. The problem was that I could never reach it. It didn’t matter how much I pulled or tugged, it just never came within

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