Acolyte's Underworld: An Epic Fantasy Saga (Empire of Resonance Book 4) by L.W. Jacobs

Author:L.W. Jacobs [Jacobs, L.W.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-05-24T22:00:00+00:00

23

Ella followed her friend to an ice bar once they’d docked in Widow’s Hill. She’d grown up in West Cove and didn’t know this part of the city well. The bar was posh like the rest of the Hill, with tasteful hanging gardens and dark polished wood grates over melting slabs of ice, palm-frond fans circulating deliciously cool air inside the dim space. They took a private booth at the back, flowering vines draping the entrance.

Marea leaned over her iced glass of mavenstym. “Now. What do you mean Nawhin sent you to Uhallen?”

“Not straight to him,” Ella said, keeping her voice casual. Marea’s feelings could be delicate, but it also looked like the girl was in over her head, and probably had no one else to tell her that. “A secretary from Alsthen was delivering messages to Eyadin. Nawhin lead me to her, and she pointed me on to Uhallen.”

“So you think Uhallen sent Eyadin?”

“No.” Ella set down her glass. “But I think he’s involved with whoever sent him. I know it.”

“How?”

“We were attacked, after you left. A shaman who could take on anyone’s appearance. He tried to kill Tai and take the spear.”

“So? I’m sure a lot of shamans want that spear, now that all their easy thralls are gone.”

“We—got confirmation,” Ella said, careful not to use Falena’s name. She’d promised to keep it secret, and whatever she said here Uhallen would see later in mindsight. “The same person who sent Eyadin sent the latest attacker.”

“And you think it’s Uhallen?”

“No, it’s an archrevenant. But I think Uhallen’s involved.”

That gave Marea pause. “Avery—Harides, whatever his name was—he thought an archrevenant had sent Eyadin too. Read it in Eyadin’s papers during one of our stops on the way to Califf. But if Uhallen was the archrevenant, he would have taken us hostage on the spot, to use against Tai.”

“Or killed us outright,” Ella said. “My thoughts exactly. He’s not the archrevenant, but he’s a link in the chain.” The real question was whether she could believe Uhallen’s tip about Teynsley. Was he throwing her off the trail to protect himself? Or telling the truth in the slim hopes she’d kill Teynsley and Uhallen would be free from whatever hold the archrevenant had on him?

Marea gave her a concerned look. “What are you here for, Ella? Trying to kill another archrevenant?”

“Teynsley,” she said. “His name is Teynsley, archrevenant of wafters. And no, I’m not trying to kill him. I’m trying to prove he’s attacking Tai. The archrevenants have a pact against attacking each other, and Teynsley is breaking it. If I can prove it, then the other archrevenants will take care of him.”

“How do you know all this?”

Ella sighed. “I wish I could tell you, but my source swore me to secrecy. Just trust me that it’s true.”

“Okay. But you’ll have to trust me when I say Uhallen’s not after Tai. He actually saved me from a shaman who was. A woman trying to force me to lead her cell back to him so they could attack.

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