billion book
70
Morgan pov.
Two weeks and I've only managed to get through four doors. Fourteen days of being stuck in this hell hole with no one to talk to but myself and even that's stopped. I don't know when I stopped talking but I know it's been dead silent and I'm losing my mind. I've gotten three more quotes.
Leadership is earned, not forced.
Wisdom is earned with time.
Nothing in life is free, true rewards are earned.
I can clearly see Magnus wants me to earn my freedom and if I knew what exactly he wanted to prove by indirectly telling me I haven't earned anything in life I would probably already be out of here. Time behind those doors work differently than just wandering from room to room in this prison. Every time I exit, I'm aware that more days have passed even when it only felt like I've been gathering puzzles for a day.
"Casey" I beg as I call out to her, knowing I won't get a response. I try my bond with Rain again to be greeted to more silence. I wonder what's going to happen if I ever get out of here. Will time in the real world have passed just as it has passed here? How will they have handled that I'm gone? Are they even aware that I'm gone or have Magnus warped their reality to make it like I never existed. I groan, rolled over and hiding my face in my pillow. I've been in bed all day my body exhausted from gathering puzzles that only give me useless quotes and like this place knows I need rest my food has been showing up on a tray on my bed. Everything I've been craving while I'm here. I sit up at the realization. "Can I have a glass of orange juice?" A glass appears on my bedside table, and I bite my lip. "Can I have salty crackers?" A plate appears next to the glass, and I grab one and munch on it as I contemplate my next question. "Why am I here?" Nothing happens for a while until I note a note has appeared on my nightstand.
To learn a lesson. An eerie feeling washes over me, and I look around the room but I'm still completely and utterly alone.
"Can I have a puppy?" Nothing happens and I almost laugh to myself at the question. If I can't have Casey in here, what's not to say about another living being. "What lesson am I supposed to learn?" Another note appears and I'm almost too scared to pick it up.
You have to figure that out yourself. I huff.
"I know I'm supposed to work to earn things and not just be given things." I almost scream, almost expecting to find myself back in the safe house but nothing happens. Then I just sit there, looking around the room, out the window with the blue sky and I cry. I wipe the first few tears before I give up on the rest, allowing the tears to flow freely as I realize this place might be set up for me to fail no matter what I do.
As my emotions go haywire, so do my magic, causing the walls around me to shatter, mini tornadoes to form, ruining everything in its place. The floor fills with water and fire leaks at the ceiling though nothing burns and none of the mess touches me. The sky outside my window turns dark and it begins to rain as the sadness threatens to consume my chest. I claw at the wall between my bond with Rain, mentally throwing everything I can at it, but it doesn't shatter. It stays there, dormant and unmoving and sobs wrack through my body as it does.
I need Rain. That much is clear to me. I hadn't functioned as a normal being before I met him. I had nothing to live for and even though I really loved my sister I wasn't even trying that hard to understand her, or really be there for her. Rain coming along changed everything. I can now understand why my sister got so hung up with the people she dated. Love will make you do crazy things. The thought sobers me.
I love Rain.
I love Rain and he doesn't know it and there is no way I'm dying in here without him knowing that I love him. As I reign in my magic the room slowly goes back to the way it was. I finish eating my crackers, drinking my juice and then crawl out of bed. After a long shower I get dressed in the jumpsuit again and grab the backpack from the chair in the corner of the room.
In the dining room I pack everything I need before heading to the library, glaring at the last three doors. I'm going to get out of there. Find all the damn puzzle pieces, read all the damn quotes and figure out what the hell Magnus wants from me. As I step through the blue door everything is deathly calm inside me as I make a promise to myself that I will put Magnus through the same hell he's putting me. That I will tell Rain I love him.