CHAPTER 53

ARTHUR

“Are you okay?” Arthur asked Mila. She was shaking now.

Mila nodded and squeezing her eyes tightly, she hugged Arthur with all her might. Arthur too wrapped his hands around her to assure her that it was all okay.

“Help please,” someone croaked from the prison.

“What happened here?” Arthur demanded the people who were the cells.

A few people looked at each other.

“We will let you out,” Arthur spoke, still holding on to Mila tightly, “Just need to know what happened here.”

“Your clan attacked us, and we lost,” one of the men spoke.

“Then?” Arthur asked.

“Hanna asked us to make for the citadel. She said that there were tunnels under there which led to a new city,” the man continued.

“Okay,” Arthur insisted.

“But as we came here, we were ambushed. There was pitch dark in here, and we could hear monsters growling. A hissing sound threatened to kill us if we didn’t obey and asked us to move. They gave us directions and shunted us one by one in these cells. We have been ke