Angela Knight - 04 Master of Swords by Angela Knight

Author:Angela Knight
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-10-18T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Lark had just picked up her first forkful of eggs when the table in front of her faded away. Suddenly she was sitting beside a bed in a darkened room. A sweet-faced little boy, about eight or so, lay on his side in front of her, deeply asleep. Moonlight streaming in through a window made his pale, tousled hair seem to glow like a halo. A bedraggled stuffed bunny lay in his arms, one ear flopped against his smooth cheek.

Smiling, she looked up.

A face filled the window, twisted with horrific lust. Lark opened her mouth to shout a warning…

And found herself staring at a forkful of eggs. What the hell… oh, God.

A vision. She’d just had a vision. That meant…

“Gawain!” Throwing the fork across the room, she leaped to her feet, called her armor, and ran for the stairs. “Gawain!” she yelled as she took the steps two at a time. “Kel! Armor up, we’ve got trouble!”

The bedroom door flew open as she raced down the hall. Gawain stepped out, already in his armor with Kel in his hand. His handsome face looked grim, yet like the combat veteran he was, he held his big body loose-limbed and ready. “What’s going on?”

“I had a vision,” Lark told him, stopping short to cast a spell. Her will brought a dimensional gate swirling into being in the hallway. Within its depths lay a deceptively serene view of a perfectly ordinary middle-class home in the center of a neatly-kept lawn.

Gawain threw the scene a narrow-eyed glance. “Edge?”

“No, somebody else. He’s about to snatch a child. We’ve got to move now if we’re going to save that boy.” The dimensional gate started to form.

“I don’t want to get caught off-guard again,” Gawain snapped. “Kel…”

“I’ll call Arthur.”

” I don’t think so,” Tegid murmured under his breath, staring intently into the scrying pool, his tail lashing with excitement. This entire situation had real possibilities as something he could manipulate to his advantage. Merely getting Gawain killed would serve his purposes, since Kel would be left to die in the sword.

Sensing his nephew drawing power to call out to Arthur, he cast a spell of his own to block it. Kel’s magic hit his barrier and bounced. Satisfied, Tegid smiled.

Oh, yes. This could work nicely.

Gawain shot a look at Lark. Her face was pale, but her eyes glittered with fierce determination as she started to step through her gate. He grabbed her shoulder.

“We go first.” Lifting Kel and roaring his battle cry, he leaped through the gate. Lark ran after him.

On the other side of the gate, he scanned his surroundings. A small, neat yard populated by oaks and azaleas, a two-story house with white vinyl siding…

And a vampire in scarlet armor standing by one window. The sorcerer spun with a growl, flinging out his hands. His magical blast splashed off Kel’s shields. A fireball flashed past as Lark returned fire. Gawain charged, swinging Kel up for a vicious overhead strike.

The sorcerer ran to meet him, howling a battle cry.

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