A Shade of Vampire 71: A Sacrifice of Flames by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2019-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

Harper

I’d done my best not to be pissed off about the Hermessi ruining my wedding with Caspian. I’d tried to be mature about it, but with every hour that passed and every fae that fell under their wretched influence, I could feel the anger bubbling. I’d been slow-cooking for days now, and watching chunks of my Novak family fall sick and get locked inside charmed crystal casings was the last straw. The camel’s back wasn’t broken. It was shattered.

In our constant turmoil and the multiple field ops to track down and bring in as many of the death cultists as we could, both Caspian and I had forgotten about Ramin and my connection to him. Thankfully, Taeral had remembered. Our Nerakian adventure seemed so puny and so long ago, in comparison to today’s catastrophes.

Caspian came with me to Neraka—no way he’d let me do this alone. Fiona and Zane were kind enough to host us in their palace in Infernis, the daemon capital. White City had been quarantined and secured, with several witches and Manticores in charge of taking care of the ill fae. We’d had some stationed here as part of GASP, and they’d all fallen under the Hermessi’s influence. Whether the cultists had come along with them—our own people betraying the others—or they’d been locals of other species recruited by the Hermessi, we didn’t know for sure. None of the assailants had been caught here. Instead, there were five hundred crystal casings already occupied in White City, all of them fae. At first, we’d thought it impossible for the Hermessi to affect anyone other than the fae, but the Cerixian cults had proven otherwise.

In order to get what they wanted, the Hermessi could reach out to anyone. Fortunately for us, only the fae were affected by their elemental influence. At least that bought us a little time before the five million body mark for the ritual was hit.

Down below, in Infernis, the atmosphere was slightly calmer. The daemons weren’t easily shaken by the events. Maybe they were just fearless, even a little reckless by nature, but it helped. A strong mind and spirit were needed to keep the overall mood up. Therefore, Neraka was less gloomy than The Shade and Eritopia, for example. My heart broke for the fae planets. They’d taken the heaviest hit, with thousands of fae already sealed inside crystal casings. My only hope was that, if the Hermessi completed their occupation, the casings might stop them from moving forward with the ritual. They were the work of the Supernatural Dimension and The Shade’s most powerful witches. I had to cling on to that sliver of hope.

“We haven’t had any other fae fall ill since yesterday,” Fiona told us as she and Zane escorted us into one of their guest rooms. The palace was huge. Glancing around, I could almost see the moving statues that Shaytan had used to hunt us down—the Death Claws that had claimed the lives of many. Ironically, I would’ve given anything to go back to that time, instead of dealing with this ample disaster.

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