Oubliette (Cloud Prophet Trilogy)
“My rough dress didn’t protect them when we switched from a worn wooden floor to pebble-littered ground, but I was so grateful I hadn’t chosen silk.Mark quickly crawled through behind me, popped his fingertips back together and the portal closed. I looked around at the room before me. Not a room, I quickly realized, a cave, shimmering with stalactites and stalagmites, baring their teeth at us.“Where are we?” Mark asked, his voice cracking with wonder.“I don’t know,” I said. “But wherever we are,... someone went to great trouble to hide it.”Mark stood, stretching his legs out. He held out a hand to help me up. I gratefully took it and joined him in standing. But as I stood, my wig caught on a rock next to me and ripped it off my head.“I still can’t believe you shaved your head again,” Mark said, rubbing his hand lightly on my scalp. I shivered from the cool, dry air passing over it ahead of his hand.“I had to. I wanted to blend in. I didn’t want anyone to see me.”MoreLess
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