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Gone…
The servant slips away as Asha, Cyra, and Veles arrive, coming up behind me, but I do not move. I do not speak or turn around to them, the vicious impulse to slaughter anything that comes near me too great. To ruthlessly rip apart, destroy, and decimate everything until nothing but carnage and chaos are left behind.
Asra slowly steps up beside me but keeps his distance. “We will find her, Kestral. We will get her back. You have my word.”
Gone…The flames claw and burn across my chest, piercing through my thundering heart.
A storm begins to build inside me and spill out, causing the light around us to be shuttered by dark gray clouds sweeping across the sky, completely obscuring the sun. They unfurl across the three kingdoms, swelling into a powerful windstorm, a tempest that upheaves the turbulent waters below.
Asra’s eyes widen. “He is not supposed to be able to use his powers within the shield.”
My power expands, charging outward with a rumble of thunder that reverberates across the sky.
The turbulent waves crash against the side of the mountain as the wind picks up. Twisting, spiraling, growing, before unleashing an onslaught of twisters that slam into the black sea.
“He is a direct descendant of those who created the shield, and his mate was just taken. I doubt that little restriction is going to stop him now,” Veles says, my heightened senses picking up the strain in his voice.
The storm surges and swells, forming a powerful whirlwind that roars around us in fury. In rage and vengeance. In pain and torment.
Until everything stops and grows calm. A still silence that is a deceptive lull and ominous warning.
Energy fills the air, cracking around us, stalking outward.
Gone… The lightning hits, a booming strike that seeks out a ruthless revenge.
SEREN
The ground beneath me shudders and shakes, making my stomach roll. I try to move my arm and any other limb, but no part of my body obeys my command.
Flashes of light flicker across my lids, and my eyes blink open a sliver, too spent, too painful to fully open.
I can’t move my head, but I can see the wooden edges of the open carriage I must be in. There are bodies beside and above me, their warmth bleeding into me, keeping me warm as we travel through the bitter winds outside.
I know I have to try to get out of this, to awaken my body from this strange unmoving slumber, but no matter how hard I try, nothing moves.
I try to pull up my Sidus light and then attempt to release my shadows, but nothing happens. I reach down inside myself and search for that familiar thread of power, but it is as if it has been carved out of me with only a hollow space left behind.
The carriage jolts, turning my head to the left, and my eyes slightly widen when I spot a familiar face.
Leora is by my side, her eyes closed, her body still. Too still. Focusing on her, I catch the rise and fall of her chest, and the tightness in mine slowly eases.
I can’t tell where we are, the edges of the carriage high enough to block me from seeing directly out but low enough to see the sky above.
It can’t be my town, as it’s not dark enough to block out the sun above like it does in the Sidus town, and the ground is too smooth and straight to be up in the mountains.
It can only mean that whoever has taken us is taking us someplaceoutsidethe kingdom. Which should not be possible. The shield and wall alone should have stopped them, and that is without the dark creatures preventing them a way past.
Veles’s words cross my mind about the mention of a portal, just as energy slides over my skin, an icy rush that fills me before dissipating.
Panic assaults my mind and silent body as dread fills me, and I realize my fears have come true.
The carriage stops and two males come into view, their side profiles now revealing one with a slight point to his ears.
It seems the shield does more than just hide the other kingdoms; it glamours the Fae’s appearance too.
The Fae looks slightly older and taller, but the other male is familiar. It takes me a moment to realize who it is as my eyes attempt to close, my body wanting to rest. I force them to stay open and watch on as the Caligo guard we caught at the bridge stands in front of me. The one who betrayed us.
“I hate that bloody shield,” the Fae says to the guard. “I hate not having my full abilities and how it makes me feel as fragile as a weak human,” he sneers.
