Ancient Kings (The Young Ancients) by Power P.S

Author:Power, P.S. [Power, P.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2013-03-11T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter twelve

Tor had three simultaneous, and very different reactions to the thing he was watching out of the window. The first was to stand there staring at it like a moron, with his mouth hanging open. For about three seconds he did that pretty well, so he moved to his second action, which was to move in front of his wife, using his body, and the shield he'd worn to bed to protect her.

Tiera's friend Regina popped into his head then, since his sister done almost exactly the same thing, when an explosive weapon was used. It hadn't worked. Then again, the girl hadn't had a shield on herself. That was a mistake of course. One that he'd made. All the way around.

Her death was, in many very real ways, his fault.

He'd trusted Sandra Morris to act like a reasonable person and not go around blasting people with weapons of war in the commons of a school. It was also his failure in that he hadn't made certain that the girl, so connected to his own family, had a shield of her own. True there was a lot of blame to go around on that one, but it hurt suddenly, even as he should have been standing there in awe and slightly gibbering as the sky stopped glowing finally.

The third thing that occurred to him was that he knew what the thing in front of him was. Or at least Cordes recognized it.

"That's an EMP. An Electro-Magnetic Pulse. A very large one." Tor moved back from the window and took his wife's hand gently. "It... really it isn't a threat to us, as scary as it looks and sounds. It's meant to take out technology, like what they use in Austra and the Antarctic? My guess is that Orange and my Uncle Dan did it to keep Gray from running away. Or something like that. Notice how it's off to the south and east? She was probably running from Two Bends, or... given the location a spot closer to us than that by a few hundred miles." It made sense, but he turned the light in the room on, not even walking to the touch sigil by the door. A bit of focus and extended concentration did the trick, the world suddenly becoming brighter then.

Ali just stood, her body slightly stiff and a bit of fear trickling out of her, which was probably a good sign for what other people would be feeling too, not knowing what the strange thing was. They'd probably blame him for it. After all, it seemed like magic, didn't it? That or one of the Lairdgren Group. They were the ones with new magic in the area after all.

It made sense after a fashion, too.

"Honey? We should head to the commons and see if anyone needs to be calmed down. People might be worried. This really won't hurt us though, I don't think. We should get with Kolb and Doris too, if possible. They'll know

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