Maeve
The tunnel system snaked beneath the forest floor on the outskirts of the castle grounds. Most of it was caved in, which is likely how it had stayed hidden for so long. The forest was vast, and even with warriors lining the perimeter of the castle grounds, I felt utterly hidden from the outside world.
We’d followed Carl through the forest for at least a mile. A rocky hill sprouted from the forest floor, strange, gnarled trees growing out of the pockets of earth between the massive, cracked boulders. The earth dropped down as we neared the hill, and the landscape looked as though some kind of explosion had happened there, long ago now. Grass and moss blanketed the area’s scars.
“The men will wake soon,” said a red-eyed man behind us.
I sucked in my breath. Rogues. Rogues with the
