Thinking so, Ines was looking around the room when the sound of flowing water reached her ears. She turned her head toward it reflexively. There, on the side opposite the one she had entered from, was another door.
Ines opened the door. She had thought she heard water, and a channel was connected to it.
“So this is… I see.”
It was a secret space made for slipping away in the midst of chaos. Hiding could never have been its only purpose. Admiring the design of the hidden chamber, which led to an escape route, Ines soon grew gloomy.
‘If he had hidden here, could Cedric have survived?’
Though she told herself she must now abandon her pointless attachment and regret over the past, Ines was helplessly dragged back to those days once more.
Probably not.
Unlike her, Cedric's striking features would have drawn people's attention, and in…
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