The commotion that followed the violent quake at the Cave Manor served as Zina's cover as she slipped from her prison while she ran like a mad woman towards the tunnel.
The map was her only sense of direction. But that was more than enough for her as she prowled forward without looking back for once.
Servants whipped past her in a blur, none of them taking any true notice of her as the world collapsed under their feet.
Since the night before, Zina had long known that the Cave Manor would collapse. Now, everyone in the Manor was witnessing the same. But what Rowan was unaware of was that no matter how bad the earthquake got to be, the Oak Tree would remain standing even while buried in the rubbles of the cave.
Zina knew that… she had seen that. Which was why the staff had become her last recourse. And after successfully diverting Rowan's attention to the possibility that the Oak Tree would collapse as well, she finally had some space to make possible what really mattered.
