Blood & Fate: Monster Apocalypse, Book 3 by Alexa Piper

Author:Alexa Piper [Piper, Alexa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BIN 010549-03428
Publisher: Changeling Press LLC
Published: 2022-10-10T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

They put the cola ash dude in the bunker, because of course there was a bunker here. I was not allowed to go there, and Charles hugged Kinnek close when he told us there was no chance of the Koa Esher getting out.

That first day was pretty tense, and Inkiri, who’d been happy to let me walk around the homestead before without going all clingy, suddenly didn’t want to leave my side, apart from taking care of monsters testing the wards or the times when he was on guard duty down in the bunker. Because that was a thing now that everyone other than Kinnek and me were doing: guard duty.

It went on like that for over two weeks. The thing was, if I hadn’t known that there was a bunker with an evil mage stuck inside, I’d never even have known, because the guys didn’t talk about it, Charles wasn’t chatty to begin with, and there were no noises, no screams or whatever was to be expected when you kept someone in a bunker under your backyard. The guys did their morning workouts and sometimes Charles joined, dragging Vergis along every now and then. Kinnek and I worked on magic and my Lugarra skills. It was surreal, and I could have written the cola ash guy off as a dream.

For our magic lessons, Kinnek would pull Vergis in more often than not now. We’d do smaller things like parting and passing through the veils around the property, but for our first lesson together, Kinnek sat us down at the kitchen table with a large pot filled with water in front of us.

“As a magic dispenser, you need to practice dispensing, and Vergis needs to practice using you. In a consensual, mutually beneficial way, of course,” Kinnek said brightly. It was a hot day in July, and he was wearing hot pink shorts that Gran would have called “indecent in the best of ways.”

“Dad, unless you let me gag him, I don’t see where the benefit lies,” Vergis said, because he was being Vergis like effing always.

“Must the bagu be so base?” I said in halting Lugarra.

From the look both Kinnek and Vergis gave me, I had overacted. Or asked why the bagu had to be so smelly.

“A gag you say?” Kinnek said, and for a second there, I wasn’t sure he was joking.

But of course, even as Vergis and I figured out how to do magic together without committing verbal or actual murder against one another, a part of me wouldn’t let go of the anxiety that came from some dude who was being kept prisoner in the bunker outside. After all, there was always another shoe, and it had to drop.

When it did, I was picking tomatoes for lunch with Inkiri and Fellisse, the latter of which looked like he couldn’t decide whether to rush inside and get my hat or whether to carry me inside bodily where my hat was so I could put it on and be safe from sunstroke sickness.

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