A Soul For Atonement (The Soulbearer Series Book 4) by Crista McHugh

Author:Crista McHugh [McHugh, Crista]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Epic Fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, Fantasy Romance
Published: 2014-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Wake up, my little Soulbearer, before they keep you from finding what you seek.”

Arden bolted up, her chest heaving from the remnants of her dream. She couldn’t remember the details, only Loku’s warning that kept playing over and over again in her mind.

From the deepest recesses of her consciousness, the chaos god rattled against his cage, far more intrusive than the other times he’d been contained. She glanced around the cave. Cinder slept beside her, his fur glowing like hot coals and casting deep shadows from the dim light it produced. Sazi slept sitting up with one wing covering her face, while Callix slept on the hard ground across from her.

No one to catch her releasing Loku. No one to stop her from trying to pry a little more information from him.

She summoned enough magic to reconfine him, if necessary, and slowly lifted the spell Sazi had cast on her. “Behave, or you’re going right back in.”

“Who are you to order a god?” he snapped back.

“Your Soulbearer, remember?” She eased off a few more layers of the restraints. “What are you so anxious to tell me?”

“Why should I tell you anything at all?” Loku replied with an indignant sniff.

“Fine, if you’re going to be that way…” She started casting another confinement spell.

“No, wait! Please, don’t be a fool,” he pleaded. “I do have something to tell you. A great many things, actually.”

“Then enough with the games.”

“As you wish, my little Soulbearer. First off, you are wise to suspect Callix. He’s not what he seems.”

“Tell me something I don’t know.”

“Second, that was very clever of you to figure out where Syd and I had hidden the Blood of Lireal.”

“You couldn’t have been more obvious if you’d tried.”

“Oh, but I was trying to be obvious. I want you to come and find it.” Laughter filled her mind until a spell slammed into the center of her chest and silenced it.

Arden looked up to find Callix sitting across from her with a ball of magic forming in the center of his palm. “Do I need to hit you again?”

“No, once was quite enough.” She gathered her own magic and hurled at him, only to have it collide and fizzle out against his shields. “Why did you attack me?”

Callix let the ball of magic roll along his fingers, his gaze never leaving her. “Why did you release him?”

“Because he was trying to warn me about you.” She balled her blanket up and shoved it into her pack. So much for sleep.

“Enough, you two.” Sazi rose to her feet and towered over them, the corners of her mouth angling down in a frown. “Did you release Loku from his confines?”

Arden chewed on her bottom lip and wondered if there was a way to avoid the question. “He was trying to deliver an urgent message to me.”

The Ornathian tilted her head to the side. “And how did you know that? You should not hear him if he’s confined.”

“I may not hear him, but I can still sense his presence.

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