Piercing screams echoed inside the spire, and Riley might have felt the need to be nervous—if those screams hadn't been his own.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!"
Yes. Without question. Those were the sounds of one very vocalized aide.
He was currently out there shrieking as the dragon lord "proved" that he valued Riley's time enough to shorten the duration it would take them to reach the sanctum.
Utter bull.
Because in reality, the elven guards had very clearly told them no. The spire would be going into what they dubbed a mana purge tomorrow, and they claimed they couldn't, in good conscience, allow anyone to enter knowing they'd be locked inside once the mana purge began.
The entire time they had been explaining that, Riley's eyes had grown wider and wider, because not a single part of it sounded great to him. But to his utter disbelief, Kael had insisted that they were going in anyway.
