Theo’s POV
I am deep in thought, ignoring everything around me. My gnawing hunger from the inadequate breakfast. The annoying drip of the leaky faucet. The damp chill of the basement dungeon in January. I will make them all pay for this miserable indignity that I am forced to suffer thanks to my blabbermouth of a mate! And I will start with punishing Janette Worthing first and foremost. But I need to get out of here to do that. So I need to somehow manifest a way out.
“You are despicable, Theodor Lupescu!” Regina taunts me, breaking my meditation like a bucket of icy water dumped over my head. I hadn’t even heard her draw near since I was so busy contemplating my current situation and limited ways in which to get out of it. “You disgust me!”
The guard is too clever to fall
