Angelfire by Courtney Allison Moulton

Author:Courtney Allison Moulton
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Speculative Fiction
ISBN: 9780062002358
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

“We can only pray they didn’t,” he said. “But Bastian called Ragnuk off for a reason. They wanted you dead and now they don’t. But there isn’t much we can do about it now.”

I tried to steady my nerves, but I failed. Uselessness was not the feeling I wanted to have. “Well, what are we doing sitting around here? They could have the Enshi in their hands as we speak!”

“Ellie, what are you going to do?” he demanded. “Just waltz in on all of them? For one thing, we don’t know if they found the Enshi tonight. It could have just been a lead. And two, we don’t even know where they are. I have no idea where Bastian would go once he got his claws on the Enshi. We just don’t have enough information to play it safe.”

“Isn’t that what this is all about? A gamble?”

He laid a hand on my shoulder firmly, his green eyes brightening a little. “We’ve gambled before, and we always lose. I’m not taking any bets where your life is concerned.”

“But I’ll come back—”

“It’s not that easy, Ellie.” He closed his eyes for a moment. “It’s not like a video game where Mario dies and pops right back into action two seconds later. You die. And it takes you almost two decades before you’re back in the game. This time, it took you four. You have to start over completely. It’s been harder every time. You’re in a weakened state right now, and Bastian knows this. He’ll want to finish you off before your full power returns to you. If he fails, there is a greater chance that we’ll stop him from getting the Enshi. This thing must be able to destroy you if he’s going through all this trouble to find it.”

“So once they get the Enshi, they’re just going to come full force at me?” He was scaring me again.

“I don’t think Bastian is that serious about killing you now. Ragnuk is good at what he does, but it seems that if Bastian really wanted you dead, he’d send more than just one assassin, and he wouldn’t have called them off the way he did. I hate to be brutally honest, but if he sent someone like Ivar after you right now, there’s a good chance that you would not make it out alive. Again, I think he’s stalling for something, like he’s keeping you busy while he searches for the Enshi. It makes me terrified of what this thing may be capable of.”

I grimaced.

“But you have me,” he said. “I’ve done everything I could over the last few centuries to keep you safe. I know I’ve failed you before, and I hate what you must go through, but how I feel about it doesn’t matter. Emotion is not relevant. My reason for existing is to protect you.”

What he said saddened me. Not the part about Bastian trying to assassinate me, but rather when he said that it didn’t matter how he felt.

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