Page 88 of Game of Destiny
“No, but I don’t think we will have a sudden epiphany either, so we need to go with it,” Sam said. I hesitated. My instinct told me I should push the symbols. But I was carrying Amie on my shoulders. If a trap was set off, we would both be caught in it.
‘Just do it, Finn. We will be okay,’ Amie mindlinked me. I took a deep breath and stepped up to the door. I pressed the nine symbols in the order we had agreed on. Then I jumped back. The symbols lit up, but nothing else happened.
“I think you need to use the handle, like any other door,” Amie pointed out. I sighed and tried the handle. The door opened. Nothing exploded, nothing shot out or slammed down. Behind the door was stairs leading down.
“Down we go,” Jake said. I mindlinked Ramses and told him what was happening. We walked down the stairs and ended up in a small square room. On the opposite wall was a door with the classic green ‘Exit’ sign above it. The room’s walls weredecorated in symbols and there were two benches, one on each side wall.
‘There is a new line; Exit is the way out,’ Ramses told us.
“It can’t be that simple,” I said.
“No, it can’t. The speaker said we would have a chance to set Ramses free. Not that it would be automatic,” Amie agreed. We looked around to see if we could see another exit sign or something like it. We found nothing.
“This reminds me of the symbols at the beginning,” Jake said, pointing at a couple of symbols.
“They do look like them,” Amie agreed.
“Okay, I might be wrong. But are we supposed to spell ‘exit’ with the symbols on the walls?” Sam asked. We all looked at him.
“You are a genius!” I told him.
“Ramses, describe the symbol for ‘E’,’ I mindlinked him.
‘Eh, it’s a circle with a squiggly thing going from the centre of the circle down to the right,’ he told us. Jake and Sam took the left wall and Amie and I took the right.
“Found it!” Amie said, reaching up almost to the ceiling to point at it.
“Has anyone found another one?” I asked. No one had. One by one we found the symbols and then we pressed them in the correct order. There was a klick and we all dived for the floor. I tried to get down in a way that didn’t hurt Amie. The click was from a secret door opening on the right wall.
‘Alpha, a door has opened in the cell wall,’ Ramses told me.
‘Go through it. I think it will lead you to us,’ I said. It didn’t take long for Ramses to join us.
“So we just walk outside now?” Sam asked.
“I guess so,” I said and opened the door marked exit. We stepped out into the forest and a horn sounded.
“Congratulations, Blue Mountain pack. You have completed the third game. Your time was one hour and forty two minutes.All of your team made it out. Please follow the official and he will show you to the rest of your pack,” the speaker said. I gave Amie a hug and the others a pat on the back. We had done it again and without anyone losing a limb or turning into a pancake. We joined the rest of the pack. The spectators were sitting in large movie theatres looking at a screen. The screen was divided in four, each part showing an identical dungeon.
“You did great,” Willie told us as we sat down.
“Had me scared senseless half of the time,” my aunt said. But she gave us a smile as she made sure we had food and water. We looked on the screen and saw a team trying to put in the correct symbols on the door. The symbols lit up like they had done for us. But when they grabbed the handle to twist it, ten inch spikes shot out of the handle and pierced his hand. I jerked out of instinct and the palm of my hand started to itch. I scratched at it until Amie took it in her hand.
‘I would pay good money to watch your brother carry his Beta on his back through the dungeon,’ she mindlinked me. The water I was drinking spurted out my nose as I tried to cough and laugh at the same time.
‘Are you trying to kill me, Red?’ I asked. She just giggled.
Chapter 44
Amie
After yesterday’s performance in the third game, I was in a good mood. I wasn’t looking forward to dinner with Finlay’s family. But if I was going to choose him as my mate, I would have to get used to his family as well. And more importantly, Finlay wanted me there for support. It was the only reason I put effort into getting ready. I used one of the dresses Medow had made me pack. It was midnight blue with a modest top with short sleeves, an empire waist and a flowing skirt. I felt ridiculously nervous as I joined Finlay and Matilda.
“That is a very nice dress. Don’t you think so, Finlay?” Matilda said as we walked toward the communal building.
“It is,” he agreed.
“Thank you,” I said.
