Dragon Master Chapter 4 (part 2)

An hour or so later Sanji was still puzzling over what the voice had said. She hadn’t had a chance to ask anything else; the voice was gone before she had the chance.
A while later the door to the dim room Sanji was in swung open. Standing in the door frame was Kilioc.
“C’mon, let’s go,” Kilioc ordered forcefully. Sanji looked at her in confusion. “I said, let’s go!” Kilioc shouted. Sanji realized that the argument with the man who had saved her had really made a dent in Kilioc’s good mood. Sanji had begun to think that Kilioc might be the key to figuring out what was going on here, but the way her mood had turned so sour Sanji wasn’t sure she wanted to be around the lady any longer.
“Why?” Sanji dared to ask. She flinched back, ready for a scolding of some sort. The kind she would have gotten where she lived if she had asked such a question. She was questioning authority, and she had been taught not to.
“Look, I know you want to get out of here… and to tell you the truth so do I. I have always followed orders from Laetin…” she paused, realizing that she had told Sanji the name of the hooded figure. “Anyway, I have always wished I could have his gift, his title. So I have followed him around like a dog. Well, I realize now that I don’t have to. You have his gift. So you need to learn how to manage it. I have watched Laetin enough to know how to train you. Now come on, we need to get out of here before Laetin or Kyle finds me missing and comes down here looking for me.”
“Okay-“ Sanji replied hesitantly. Once again Kilioc’s mood had changed dramatically and Sanji was wondering how much time she wanted to spend with her. “I’ll go,” she said, more to herself than to Kilioc, but Kilioc seemed pleased with her answer.
“Well, come on then!”

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Once they were out of the building that they had been in Sanji let out a breath of relief. That had been scary. Both Laetin and Kyle had almost seen them, and according to Kilioc, they didn’t want to find out what would happen if they did.
Sanji looked back at the small place they had come from. It was just ramshackle cabin, which looked like it could cave in at any given moment. But on the inside it was surprisingly clean and well kept. They room Sanji had been kept in was not much lighter than the rest of the “house”. There had been lots of closed doors in the hallway that seemed to go on forever. When they had finally come to the one they had wanted and had opened it to go through, Laetin and Kyle came out from another door. Luckily, they had managed to slip out unnoticed.
“So, where are we going?” Sanji asked, once they were a safe distance from the cabin.
“Don’t know just yet, probably the Dragon Caves.”
“The Dragon Caves?!?” Sanji had heard about the place. Only few people had been there, and even fewer came back alive.