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turmoil
running through her mind, even though she had remained frozen in place and
glaring at him.
     
    “Don’t do
anything stupid, and you’ll live through this,” Fallon promised.  He spoke in a
quiet tone for her ears alone.
     
    The need
to ask him what was going on burned in the back of her throat.  She couldn’t
stand it anymore.  The fact that they were all wearing harnesses scared the
ever-loving shit out of her.  Panic began rising in her chest and threading her
nerves, making her heart gallop within her chest.
     
    “They’ve
reached the bottom,” one of the men said, peering out of the tunnel entrance.
     
    The
bottom?
     

 
     
     
     
    CHAPTER FOUR
     
     
    “Two at a
time, just like we practiced,” Fallon said, nodding to his men.
     
    The men
grabbed the nearest two women, who happened to be the plain-looking redhead,
Pamela, and the littlest blonde, Suzanne, and attached ropes to their harnesses. 
The women screamed as they were dragged to the edge of the tunnel--and then
Ebony watched them disappear over the side, instantly out of sight.
     
    Unable to
hold back any longer, Ebony reached up with her bound hands and tore the gag
off of her mouth.  “What are you doing to them?” she cried.  The wind
whistled through the tunnel opening, sounding like a ghost out of a bad horror
movie.
     
    Fallon
frowned at her, his hands on his hips, as he watched his men heave at the ropes
looped around their bodies for support—as if they were lowering the two unlucky
women down the side of a mountain.  “I didn’t suppose any of you had the
strength or experience to climb down the rope.  They’re being lowered to the
bottom,” he finally said.
     
    “The
bottom? The bottom of what ?” Ebony’s stomach began knotting once more.
     
    Fallon
grabbed her arm and walked her forward to the edge of the tunnel, pushing her
head outside so she could see what new obstacle she faced.
     
    Her
stomach dropped to her feet.  All romantic thoughts of seeing the ocean again
were forgotten.  A wave of dizziness washed up to her head, leaving her feeling
hot and terrified all at once.  Cold sweat broke along her brow, chest, and
arms as the horror of what she faced finally sank in.
     
    Far
below, perhaps a hundred feet or more, the sheer face of the cliff she perched
on dropped down a narrow strip of beach and the lapping waves of the sea.  She
could see Pamela and Suzanne clinging desperately to the ropes on their
harnesses.  They were being lowered down like so much cargo to the beach, where
the first two men waited.  It was so far down that, to Ebony, they all looked
like miniatures.
     
    A quick
and panicked look at the cliff wall showed her that the sewage tunnel had been
carved right through the face of the rock, allowing the city’s refuse to be
washed out into the ocean--and so it was, even now, in a small fall of brown
mud.  The tunnel’s great height would prevent anyone from using it to gain
entry into the Auresial Palace and Ebony was sure it was going to kill them all
now if they tried to use it to get out.
     
    “I can’t
do that.  I can’t go down there,” she said, flinging herself back and away from
the dangerous edge.  She held her chest with her bound hands, feeling her heart
thump against her ribcage.
     
    Fallon
glared at her.  “I didn’t ask you if you wanted to go.  I’m ordering you.  We
are all going down and that includes you, whether you like it or not.”
     
    The men
finished lowering the first two women, and then the next two were sent down.  When
those were down, two more men went down behind them, and then the process was
repeated until only Ebony and Fallon remained at the top.
     
    Fallon
turned to her, grabbing her hands.  “It’s our turn.  Everyone is waiting for us
at the bottom.”
     
    Ebony was
inclined to plant her foot in the middle of his chest and let him fall to his
death--but, to her horror, he snapped a manacle around her wrist and