Chapter 53
The first trick to surviving Coleum was getting out of Coleum. My mother might have been their Princess, their Queen, their whatever but I wasn’t theirs. The country didn’t need me, and I didn’t need them. Without Coleum I had nothing but I’d rather have nothing than what Coleum had given me. Which was nothing but pain, blood, and misery. I’d had enough of that to last a lifetime.
If I stayed in The Archive, the library, at least I had a chance of getting out. The tunnels were there and through them I could escape. Tunnels that I could only hope hadn’t been blocked off or found by the royals.
Apollo managed to get permission from his father to allow me to stay in The Archive. On the day that it was made so that I would leave, I saw the King going to one of his meetings. He
