Phantom
Page 9
I slipped the letter out from the fold and peeled it open.
From being folded in half there was a line dented across the middle of the parchment. A divider. Above it, there was a sketch of a pretty woman coiled in chains.
I had to hold the letter up to understand the image. She was chained underwater. Her expressionless face looked dead. I thinned my lips and repressed a shudder. Painting or not, it was a suspiciously striking image. A bad omen if I ever saw one.
I recognised the water in the drawing. I would know it anywhere, and as I rinsed my gaze over the sketched grey lines, my skin prickled with familiar sensations of unease running through me.
It was the pond.
The Keeper’s pond.
I shuddered at the thought of drowning in those ghostly pools. Flinging it from my mind, I turned my gaze down.
Under the dented line, midnight blue ink lit up at me and coiled my stomach in ropes. Waves of nausea lifted through me, starting at my curling toes.
I was right to doubt whether I would survive this or not.
The letter pretty much confirmed the worst.
'The last pet of Prince Poison.
Hope you can swim better than she did.'
end of book 3
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