Chapter 363. Inferno

ZACK

“You are much more than you have ever believed,” I said, as I reached for her hand to guide her down the corridor.

After finishing telling her everything she needed to know, I tried to relax her a bit. She had to trust me. She had a spark of desire for power in her eyes that I liked from the first moment I saw her. Only the great ones have ambition in their gaze, and if the girl survived, she could become a good queen.

She was speechless when I finished. I let her take it in, let all that information sink into her soul so that she would never be the same again.

That’s what happens when you introduce knowledge, you never go back to who you were before.

“How long have I been in the shadows…” she murmured, clinging to my arm as we walked.

I let her rest her head on my shoulder. I stroked her hair slowly to calm her down. I listened to her breathing slow down, she was trusting me.

“Ignorance is an overwhelming shadow. But if you allow it, I