8 - Ever Dark: The Vampire King's War: Ever Dark by X. Aratare

Author:X. Aratare [Aratare, X.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Ever Dark#8
Publisher: Raythe Reign Publishing
Published: 2024-07-10T14:00:00+00:00

MASTER ISSUES

Balthazar stared at the empty space where Daemon, Christian and Fiona had been. He was alone except for Kaly. Though there were two people there. It was all Kaly. Like Roan had been Kaly. He frowned.

Were the people whose bodies Kaly inhabited still there? Was Kaly always in those bodies? Split between them like… like what? Were the parts connected? Did one part know what the other did or did Kaly have to reconstitute themselves once in a while to sort of sync up?

These were not just idle musings, but the answers to them would help figure out how to crack Kaly’s brain so that the white and yolk didn’t become a runny mess, all mixed together and unable to be separated again.

He turned from where three people who meant the world to him--even Fiona was starting to fit into that grouping–had been and went back to where Artemis and Moira were on the ground, kneeling, with their hands crossed at the wrists behind their lower backs. The two of them couldn’t move. He had, essentially, turned off their ability to move unless he willed it. He looked down at them with his hands on his hips.

“You know, those with the Eyros gift are hated because of the mind games they play. Not just the ones where we can turn you into marionettes, but simply the mind fucks we engage in,” Balthazar said idly.

Kaly didn’t speak. He wasn’t allowing them to. He wanted to talk for once without interruptions. Besides, he was still holding himself in check and he wasn’t sure he could control himself yet.

“But you.” He pointed at both Artemis and Moira with his right hand repeatedly, sort of like a sewing machine’s needle that went in and out and in and out. “You take the cake really.”

There was a fallen tree not too far away. Balthazar strode over to it. He looked at the smooth wood critically. It was dirty. He took out one of his handkerchiefs and brushed off what dirt he could. He felt Kaly’s disdain. Truthfully, Kaly didn’t have to talk out loud for Balthazar to hear them. He sighed.

“You think I’m fussy, too concerned with material things,” Balthazar said as he carefully lowered himself onto the fallen tree.

The moment he settled his butt on the wood, he felt something cold seep into his right pant leg. He’d missed a spot. Balthazar sighed.

“You do think that, but that it’s understandable, because--unlike you--I am anchored, pathetically, to only one body,” Balthazar said out loud the rest of Kaly’s thought. “Hell, I don’t want to play parrot. You can talk.”

The truth was that he was allowing Kaly to speak because it would make it far easier for him to answer those earlier, deeper questions he had by sifting through Kaly’s mind while Kaly was concentrating on answering the questions he had out loud.

There was a gasp and Artemis and Moira gulped air even though not speaking shouldn’t have affected their breathing. But he did have a very firm touch on them.

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