Chapter 15
I locked the door again behind me then looked up at Brianna. She gave a little wave for me to follow her back down the hall to where Sophie was standing at the top of the stairs. Brianna motioned for Sophie to start dancing up another wind, then summoned a spray of obsidian-like sand from the end of her wand. Sophie sent it flying down the hall to the two guards still snoring away in the chairs.
They both woke with a loud snort, and we quickly raced down the stairs, all of the way back to the darkened corridor behind the ballroom.
"What did he say?" Brianna asked me, but there were a group of men talking together just a few feet away in the corridor, and I shook my head.
"Not here," I said. We continued down the corridor to the bright lights of the ballroom. A crowd of angry
