Rain had been left to her own devices.
The King of Nothing — that was who the tall man with strange mirror-like eyes had turned out to be — escorted her to the lower floors of the Ebony Tower. The floor beneath the Archway Hall was apparently deadly for most humans, so she had to be guided down with a blindfold obscuring her vision.
Rain thought that it was just an excuse to hide something from her, but when she felt her skin crawl and an eerie sensation penetrate her heart as they walked down the stairs, she realized that the King of Nothing had told the truth on this particular occasion.
He seemed trustworthy, in general… charming, even. The man was nothing if not pleasant and treated her with graceful manners — even if his sense of humor was a bit off-putting at times. Needless to say, he did not resemble the bloodthirsty psychopath the rumors painted him to be one bit.
That only made Rain more wary of him.
