Awaken: New York (The Awakening Series Book 2) by Z Limelan

Author:Z Limelan [Limelan, Z]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-28T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Sunday came around too quickly but this time I had an exit strategy, courtesy of Wolfe. I’d floundered a bit until he’d drawn my attention to the CCTV cams on most of the surrounding buildings. Ossi had confirmed that you can glamour a person but not a machine, so for us to abide by the rules everyone would be leaving au-human.

Once the challenge was announced, most of us had the same idea and ended up trudging in single file down the steps of the fire escape on the outside of the building. It was sixty floors, which made the whole thing even more ridiculous. Sixty floors sandwiched between Gherard’s hulking shoulders and Ilaria’s crazy-gaze.

Wolfe was waiting for me at the bottom. He was leaning against the black paintwork of one of his cars with a sexy quirk on his lips. He cast me a was-I-right-or-was-I-right look. I rolled my eyes.

‘Yes, yes,’ I sighed, pretending to be put out by the fact it had worked, I was safe and hadn’t sustained a major injury.

He opened the door for me. ‘Where to?’

‘Volcán Arenal?’ I offered, slipping inside and pulling out my phone to google. ‘Fuck!’ Tight-lipped, Wolfe strapped in next to me and the car took off. ‘It’s the most active volcano in the world?’ He said nothing. ‘It says it’s closed to all hikers and climbers at the moment. Is she serious?’

He cast me a look. At my confusion, he elaborated. ‘You are immortal.’

‘Yeah, but…I don’t want to die.’ I rubbed my face. ‘And if there are no humans around, we’re all basically exposed.’ Hound territory?

‘This is likely the intention.’ I chewed my reaction and continued scrolling. The more I read, the less comfortable I felt. ‘What do you retrieve?’

‘Blood from a basilisk. Apparently, they live near the volcano but I’m guessing far enough to avoid the eruptions. What’s a basilisk? I remember the word from Harry Potter.’ I started googling and my heart sank. ‘How the fuck am I supposed to get blood from some demon-lizard thing that can kill me if I look at it?’

I threw my phone on the leather and stared out of the window. Wolfe frowned. ‘Allow another to source it then kill them.’

I scowled. ‘I don’t want to kill anyone.’ And even if I did, all they had to do was touch the blood and it would be magicked away like the amber.

I glanced blindly out of the window as a thought struck me. If that was true, then I didn’t need a vial or a syringe, or even a knife to get the basilisk’s blood. All I needed was something to make it bleed, and then I could…dip a finger in it, maybe?

I picked up my phone and started googling what kills a basilisk. A big mirror and a weasel, apparently. Where was I going to find a weasel in Costa Rica? I continued my googling.

Queen Samira had said “blood from the Arenal basilisk”. Was there only one? Or was that a particular breed? I wondered if there was a black market for basilisk blood.

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