Chapter 18
Here we begin to see things really fall apart. Marek and Ikrivain are kept together and Thea waits in a separate cell. This prison facility as it is called is not a prison that is actually in use at this time. They appear to be the only prisoners and the sister is nowhere to be found. They ask the guards but there is no reply.
Once the guards leave Ikrivain begins to plot a way out, to finish the mission, but Marek stops him. Marek is pissed and tells him about it. This has always been about the mission and about him winning the heart of the baroness. He tells Ikrivain he is being used and there is no future for him with that woman. He goes on to talk about the sacrifices the others made and Ikrivain spits back that there are sacrifices in war. But this is no war, and you are no commander! We came with you out of friendship and love. We came to see you succeed because you wanted this more than anything I’ve seen a person want but you lost yourself in this. We have failed, and we will likely die. We will die for nothing. We will die because of you.
That is enough to bring these men to blows and they fight with nobody to restrain them and Ikrivain reaches for the magic and he finds it not there and he finds instead it is clawing at him in some strange way and he fears it is the spell being cast and begins to realize something truly terrible is happening in this place.