A Shade of Vampire 56_A League of Exiles by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-02-18T16:00:00+00:00

Harper

Just as the first invisible daemon came through the door, Pheng-Pheng and I jumped off the horse, along with the rest of my team. Vesta swiftly rolled over to the side and out of the daemon’s way.

“You take his left, I’ll take his right,” I said to Pheng-Pheng, and she replied with a brief nod, then drew her sword.

With my twin blades ready, I darted over to the daemon’s right side, as Pheng-Pheng rushed to the left. I caught a glimpse of the creature’s red eyes and launched my attack. His claws caught one of my swords, and he was forced to block the second one, too—giving Pheng-Pheng the momentum to drive her sword through the fiend’s neck.

Vesta unscrewed the cap from her water bladder and pulled the liquid out with graceful guidance from one hand, using her wrist and finger movements to coax it into a fine mist spreading through the now-open door.

I heard gurgling as the first daemon collapsed on the ground with a thud. One down, four more to go—the mist counteracted the invisibility spell worn by the other fiends coming through the door. With flashing steps and swift moves, Hansa, Caspian, and Fiona tackled three of the remaining daemons.

Pheng-Pheng and I handled the fourth, while Blaze, Caia, and Vesta kept to the side, ready to intervene if needed. Our blades cut through the beasts’ throats before they could call for help or sound an alarm. One by one, the daemons fell in pools of their own crimson blood, before Blaze and Caia dragged them off to the side.

We pulled large leaves from nearby bushes over their lifeless bodies and managed to hide them all from whomever might come along—friend or foe. “Hopefully, the rest of our incursion into Draconis will be just as discreet,” Hansa whispered, panting slightly.

We hid the horses in a crevice to the side, and I ordered them to wait there for us, using my sentry “persuasion”.

I peeked into the darkness beyond the open door, using my True Sight. “Coast is clear, for now,” I said, then looked up. “There are more hostiles up on the first floor. They’re not invisible, though. I bet they didn’t hear or see us, yet.”

“Either way, have your red lenses ready,” Jax replied, then motioned to Vesta to lead the way inside.

I fumbled through one of my pockets and pulled two lenses out—after our mission in Shaytan’s palace, I’d managed to hold onto a couple, adding strings so they could be tied around the head. I handed one to Pheng-Pheng, who stared at it with eyebrows raised.

“Not into the whole monocle thing,” I muttered, and put mine on.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about,” she replied, and tied hers around her head as well.

“This single round lens was quite the fashion in the human world, back where we come from,” Fiona said, making me smile. We’d studied the human history during our high school years, and we’d often laughed at men’s fashion in the late nineteenth century.

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