A Throne of Fire by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-19T00:00:00+00:00

Jenus

I heard the clatter of the trap door being opened. Two guards were already waiting down below with me, playing a card game. I could smell the food before I saw the sentry who was bringing down my dinner.

It was later than usual, and along with the absence of the three other guards who usually spent the day down here, I suspected something was going on above. Perhaps my master? Perhaps his children, coming to wreak pain and oblivion on the foul insects that ran amok in this castle. I had tried to use True Sight earlier in the day, but with such depleted energy, I could only make out hazy shapes of gray above me—nothing to indicate that rescue was on its way.

One of the guards gestured to the other that he should open the door. They were the younger of the sentries that had been posted to watch me. I watched as a servant girl stepped out of the gloom and walked toward me, her eyes fearful. I recognized her from Hellswan castle. She had been one of the servants there, and was as thick as a tree stump.

The guard tore the barrier, allowing the girl to place the food between a small, oblong slit at the bottom of my cage. She did so hastily, but before she could withdraw I reached out, swift as a viper, and grabbed her wrist, yanking her against the bars of my cell. Instantly the guards started to syphon off me, but they couldn’t do it as forcefully or as effectively as I could to the young servant girl. Her energy was delicious, sweet like berries, and she smelt of sunshine.

“Stop! Stop! Please,” she whimpered, her beautiful blue eyes rolling back into her skull.

“Jenus! Stop instantly!” one of the guards bellowed. I paid him no heed. Once I was full of her, I released her arm and she fell backward onto the stone floor. The guards began to re-build the barriers, moving the servant girl out of the way.

“No, you don’t!” I laughed. I started to syphon off the both of them, draining them as quickly as I could. With a heavy thump the guard holding the keys fell to the floor, and then the other followed, howling out with pain.

I stood up, enjoying the surge of energy that ran through me.

It was short-lived. A moment later, the hatch to the room was torn off. Guards clattered down the stairs, the broadswords clattering against the stone walls as they surrounded me.

“Back!” I screamed. “BACK!”

Most of them laughed at me, simultaneously syphoning all the energy I had just gained. I tried to reverse it, to take from them what they were taking from me, but it was no use. There were too many.

The servant girl was cradled in the arms of one of the guards, who looked up at me in disgust.

“Don’t think you’ll be getting fed for a long time, Jenus,” one of them said as the ground rushed up to meet me.

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