It didn’t take any convincing at all for both Vorden and Raten to be in on the plan. Vorden hated the idea of anyone going through what they had to. Maybe Quinn’s righteousness for a change in society was rubbing off on him.
As for Raten, he was happy to see the whole place burn and was imagining the look on Hilston’s face when he left the place with the kids. Where would they go, well, he knew Quinn would accept him and the kids if he asked to. They could probably survive on the large spaceship for a while.
The problem was, doing this meant they would be enemies of the Balde family, which would make it, so Quinn had another large target on his back. Vorden and Sil just didn’t want to do that to Quinn.
Instead, they would go to their own planet and hide it out for a while.
When they returned back that day, with only two days remaining, Vorden needed to act fast. But he had to go to the temple every day, there was no chance for him to find a way to escape. Luckily he had a little helper.
"Borden, I need you to try to find out where they keep all the ships. See if there is one big enough to take multiple people." Vorden asked, and of course, Borden agreed and was actually happy that he was needed for a change.
The ship Vorden had come in was far too small, but he knew that the Blade’s kept several things on the island in secret somewhere, and Borden being the little explorer by now had a pretty good idea of where it would be.
The next day. Vorden attended his work at the temple as usual. Just like before, none of the teachers had informed the kids of what was going to happen.
"Hey, Vorden, do you mind looking over the kids tonight? The rest of us have to go and do.. .you know what." Bubble asked.
Vorden of course agreed, he couldn’t really decline and he knew exactly what Bubble was talking about. They were going to get the Chained ready for tomorrow’s event. However, they were told specifically to not let Vorden go there himself.
He would still be taking part in the event tomorrow, and would be given an invisibility ability. This way, he wouldn’t have much power to even try to fight if he wanted to, and he was only to keep an eye out on the children.
Hilston wasn’t stupid and could guess that Sil was acting the way he did due to anger and sadness. He thought he would have gotten over it by now, but it appeared that he hadn’t. If he were to go with the Chained, he could touch the strongest ability users below and even be a match for Hilston himself.
His heart raced, thinking about going up against a six ability user, he himself was only a five ability user. Would he still be able to win, but now was not the time for that.
When they returned, Vorden was free to head back to the castle, and when he did Borden was there waiting for him in his room. In Borden’s hand, he held out a small sausage, but it was still nearly as big as Borden. He had to hug the thing to be able to even attempt to eat it.
"That’s great news, so there is a ship large enough to hold everyone. What I need you to do, is when we get there, do you think you could go on a small rampage?" Vorden asked. "Destroy all the ships as quick as you can, and then we can head off. "
"Of course, I’ve been beating up a couple of beasts here and there but was waiting for something else," Borden said.
"What?" Vorden nervously said. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
"Calm down, at times it’s natural for some strong beasts to tumble and fight with each other. It’s nothing out of the ordinary, so if I didn’t give one or two a beating, it would look even more suspicious." Borden explained.
That night it was a struggle for Vorden to sleep, as well as the other two in his mind. He tossed and turned as he went through everything in his head, the possible scenarios and just how fast they would have to act to make things work.
How long would it take for the castle to find out, how long would it take them to get from the castle to the ship area, which is located on the west end of the beach? Was there enough time?
There was also another problem he could think of. Vorden didn’t even know how to fly a large spaceship. The smaller ones were simple, but the larger ones more could go wrong since they had so many buttons. Right now he wished Logan was with him. When thinking about Logan, he started to think about the others too. He wished they were all with him right now.
He thought about all the things they had done together. He was used to doing dangerous things due to everything he had done with Quinn and the others. Only this time, he would be doing it all on his own.
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