chapter 32

Abbie Gannon is off doing an errand for the King. He had been nagging me about Cassandra and what I wanted to do about her, but I still have no idea. I don’t like the idea of having someone’s life in my hands, especially when I’ve hardly had any control over my own. Yet, when Gannon goes off with the King, I wander around the castle. I explore the wine cellars and am getting ready to clean them when I hear a familiar voice calling out from the cells down the corridor. The wine cellar runs what appears to be the entire length of the castle, with different underground corridors leading off in different directions, and the one to my left I know goes to the dungeons. Guards stand on either side of the arched tunnel leading to them, and I glance at them. They pay her no attention while she continues screaming out for them to set her free. Finding the cobweb brush, I head back toward the stairs leading into the kitchen’s huge pantry. Only once I am halfway up do I stop. Cassandra has three c