Escape from Thousand Petaled: Illusions, Evasions, and the Gauntlet of Escape: Part 3 of 4
The night of their escape arrived, cloaked in a new moon’s darkness. Aria and Sara, their hearts a frantic drumbeat against their ribs, moved with a practiced silence born of desperation. The first phase of their plan involved the diversions. Aria, channeling every ounce of her remaining fairy dust, conjured a shimmering, ghostly echo of…