Chapter 26. Allies

As soon as Moses left and she was thinking, she decided it was time to see Matheus. He must have been impatient by now. She put on a hooded cloak and went down to the dungeons, a place where no one walked and a great hiding place. As soon as Matheus saw her, he got up from the bench he was sitting on and waited for her to approach.

"Octavian told me that our plan didn't work." He said angrily, but just like Otávio and Eliza, he was relieved, but neither of them would say it out loud. "What was I thinking when I decided to let you plan his death? As far as I was concerned, a poisoned dagger that just tore through his flesh would have killed him."

"You think so? The beast protects him. My plan would have worked if something very unusual had not occurred. Someone took the glass from his hand. Talk to your god and ask for success in your journey, because it is he himself who is protecting your brother. But you are the only one who can give him e