A Shade of Vampire 66_An Edge of Malice by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2018-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

Elonora

With Cassiel gone, mysteriously taken away by the Hermessi, we had nothing left to do in those woods. Cassiel didn’t have earth elemental abilities—at least not that we knew of. Besides, he’d looked as shocked as the rest of us when the ground opened up and swallowed him whole.

We did decide to check the validity of the information he’d given us, and thus made our way toward the northern service entrance. With our invisibility spell still on, we settled on the edge of the jungle surrounding the colosseum, keeping still whenever Perfect guards came around. Something had definitely changed since our last visit.

“No ambush to take us down, so far. I take it Cassiel’s intel was accurate. But look, they doubled the guards,” I whispered from a branch, overlooking the colosseum.

The outer diamond walls were loaded on each level with at least two dozen guards, at all times. Along with the ones by the main gate, the handful near the service door, and the guards patrolling our side of the woods, we were looking at approximately three hundred Perfects within our vicinity.

That made it harder for us to move. The secret was to keep quiet, but with crunching dirt and crackling twigs and leaves covering the jungle floor, that was quite the challenge—so we kept to the trees. Those were easier to use, as we jumped from one gnarly old giant to the next.

“That’s a lot of them,” Raphael murmured once he reached Nevis and me, all three of us now settled on the same branch. Dmitri and the others were in the neighboring tree, keeping a close eye on the guards’ movements.

“How do we do this?” I replied.

We went quiet for a moment, as a group of Perfects passed by beneath us. Amane and Raphael had given us what was left of their black mineral dust to rub on our skin, prior to reactivating the invisibility spell. It helped smother our scent, preventing the Perfects from sensing us. For herself, Amane had already devised a tiny serium blocker, which she wore around her neck at all times. It had been charged with the electrical energy caused by the flow of a river, and it helped her stay hidden from Perfects and Faulties.

After all, she’d always had this weird connection to them, where they could sense each other—not all of them, but enough to be a cause for concern if we brought her to the colosseum with us. Normally, they couldn’t sense her at all whenever she was near a body of water, but the serium blocker she’d devised was pretty much the next best thing. She hadn’t been detected yet, and plenty of Perfects had gotten dangerously close.

“There are six of them by the service entrance,” I murmured.

Two were right by the door, while the other four moved around, never beyond a thirty-yard radius. None of them carried weapons, but they’d been equipped with metallic armor—a new addition to their silken tunics. The metal was beautifully worked, though sturdy and heavy.

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