Surprise Invasion V

Levon suddenly lifted his head and looked around the chamber, searching inch by inch.

He looked up at Elizabeth, who kept her head down. He smiled at her.

"You have earned another lesson, my dear. You know you deserve punishment for what you've done." He uttered the words very softly, his white teeth snapping together.

Elizabeth shuddered and kept her eyes to the ground.

He whirled back to the mage lying on the stone table. He slammed one long talon--spiked like a thick ice pick--right through her throat. Leaving it there, pinning her to the rock with one long dagger, he waved his other hand toward Elizabeth.

To Dragomir's horror her body began to dissolve, to become part of the rock her cage rested on.

"Keep her alive or you die," Levon said to his servants. "If she lives, the rewards are vast," and then he was gone.

That fast.

So fast Damonq couldn't see him move. He must have gone under the door of the chamber, or even through it, because he didn't open it. One moment he was t