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avail.”
    I rubbed my
chest. Those heart palpitations seemed to kick in harder when he
m entioned the inability to leave pixie
land. Helplessness and fear warred within my body. To distract my
thoughts I focused on where we were.
    Refis’ portal had landed us in a darkened
room. It was small. Stone lined the walls and, judging by the
shelves and random junk, it was used either for storage or cleaning
equipment. The limited space pushed us close together and thank the
gods Cerberus was back to his horse size. Still his doggy drool was
dripping very close to my face, but if he’d been full size we’d all
have been squashed against the walls.
    “So are there any unexplored avenues of
escape? Something that others have failed at?” Lucy wasn’t giving
up; she started to push Refis for information.
    “The only way to leave is via the road of
perdition,” he said. “I have traversed the path, but the end is
forever closed. The queen’s pain locked us in here. She’s the only
one with a clue as to how we can escape. I’m hoping that today, if
I bring her … some news … well, she might come back to
reality.”
    Awesome. Perdition and a space-cadet queen.
Well, at least we had Cerberus, hell-hound for the road to hell.
Seemed fitting.
    Refis squeezed past me, and light flooded
the room as he slowly opened a door. It was massive, at least ten
foot high. Not to mention the ceilings, which towered well into the
air.
    “Stay close,” Refis said, before he sidled
out of the dark room and into the light beyond.
    I reached the door first, but Cerberus
gently nudged me to the side so he could squeeze himself through
the opening. His body blocked us in for a few moments – Lucy and I
avoided the tail – before finally he moved aside, allowing us to
exit the storage room. With two heads he could look down both sides
of the hall at the same time. Very convenient. I could see Refis
marching along, quite a distance from us, so I pushed past my guard
dog and hurried after him. Lucy stayed close to my side. Cerberus
followed. I felt safer having him at my back.
    The hall ran for miles, twisting and turning
within the labyrinth of this castle. There were many intersections
where we had to turn left or right, and the stone walls never
changed color or texture. Without Refis’ slender form in the
distance we’d have been lost instantly.
    “Feels like he’s leading us on a pointless,
haven’t-we-been-here-ten-times-already journey.” Lucy’s breathing
was heavy. She had to really move to keep up with me, even though
I’d slowed my pace considerably.
    I was just about to respond when the hallway
was abruptly cut off by a massive stone wall that extended all the
way into the ceiling. Refis was standing before it, his back to us
as he stared at the structure blocking our path.
    “How do we get through?” I demanded as I
reached his side.
    “Patience,” he cautioned me, one of his
hands resting against the stonework. “This is the prison section of
the castle. It was designed to be very difficult to escape from.”
His eyes sparkled at me, followed by an uncharacteristic grin.
“Unless, of course, one holds the key.”
    And just like that he pulled out a brick
from the center of the wall. A brick that looked exactly the same
as the hundreds of others. But as soon as the stone was removed,
the wall magically crashed down around our feet. And yet there was
no noise and no stones actually on the ground.
    We stepped through to the other side,
Cerberus last, and then Refis simply placed the brick back into the
same spot he’d removed it from and the wall was whole again.
Simple. But very effective.
    I’d be
loving this pixie world a hell of a lot more if I knew we could
escape. And there it was again: the panicky thoughts attacking me.
I couldn’t trace or open a doorway, I couldn’t contact anyone. I’d
tried with Josian, Lallielle and Quarn, but had received no response. I ached so badly for Brace and his
voice in my head,