The horse plunged through the newly opened passage without breaking stride, carrying Moon and Selene into the tunnel beyond just as the chamber behind them finished its lethal shut.
They heard a crushing sound of space being eliminated completely, the walls meeting with force that would have pulverized anything caught between them.
But they were through.
Mirage slowed to a halt once they were safely inside the new passage.
Moon sat frozen for a moment, his heart hammering, adrenaline still flooding his system.
"We're alive," Selene whispered against his back, her voice shaking. "We're actually alive. How did you know?"
"…I didn't, I guessed. If I'd been wrong..."
He didn't need to finish that sentence.
Selene laughed in a slightly hysterical tone. "Next time you make a guess like that, maybe warn me first?"
"There wasn't time," Moon said, but a grim smile touched his lips despite everything.
