Blood (The Ark Trilogy) by Daro Jesse

Author:Daro, Jesse [Daro, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

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“The nerve of those people, calling you and J.J. traitors – whoa.” Leigh pulled up, blinking, as the elevator doors whooshed open onto the lower levels. “Okay. This place is a little creepy.”

“You think this is bad,” J.J. said, “you should see the dungeon.”

Emery’s ears twitched. “There’s a dungeon?”

But J.J. had already brushed by them. Xanthe rose from his couch as his pupil hurried toward him, drawing him aside for a psychic huddle. Leigh stared at them. Xanthe’s tail was curled around J.J.’s feet.

“Does that freak you out?” she whispered.

“Like you have no idea,” Seth whispered back, and then smiled. From the far end of the room, Agathon was sweeping toward them, wings rustling.

“Seth,” he rumbled. “You rested comfortably?”

“Slept like the dead,” Seth replied. Necromancer humor. Agathon laughed, a sound like paper crumpling.

McLain had left them at the elevator. Leigh walked over to where Dre was giving Whitney the tour, chirping on about alchemists’ mixtures and Lemurian grimoires. Seth leaned against the exam table where Aphrodisia had psychically X-rayed him and said, without preamble, “Agathon, I want to see the Ark.”

He had decided this last night. Everything that was happening now had begun with the discovery Elijah Bishop and Ursula LeRoi had made inside Mt. Hokulani: the Ark. That was what they were fighting to protect. Before he made his next move, before he decided what was right, as Jack had said, he needed to see the Ark for himself.

Agathon’s flat black eyes drifted to Xanthe, who was watching them like he could hear every word they were saying. “Seth, what you ask is no small request. Few of our kind have seen the Ark. Before he died, our father appointed us, the Alpha Clan, to be its guardians.”

“I know,” Seth said. “Elijah Bishop wanted you to have the Ark. Not LeRoi.”

“It was our father’s desire to see the werekin freed from their enslavement. To see Earth protected from the destruction the power of the Totems could visit upon it, in the wrong hands – a power that can command wind and wave, land and sea, that can awaken volcanoes and call fire from the sky, even sink entire continents beneath the sea.”

Everyone had become quiet, listening to Agathon. “In communicating with the dead, I see across dimensions,” he rumbled quietly. “I have seen many worlds. Enough to know Earth is a special place, blessed with special magic. Our father shared this belief, as do the others of my Clan.

“Our father studied the Ark for many years. He believed that only when the power of the Totems once again belonged solely to werekin, only when Lemuria was raised from the depths and the werekin returned to their homeland, would our enslavement end, and Earth be truly safe.”

Quinn took a step forward. She had been leaning against the wall with Alfaro. “You’re planning to raise Lemuria, aren’t you?” she said. “With or without General Burke’s approval.”

Agathon inclined his head. Yes.

Seth drew in a breath. Here, then, was the alien rebellion the humans so greatly feared.

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