Breath of Fire (Rena Drake) by Hart Liliana

Author:Hart, Liliana [Hart, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-06-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Eunice turned her head and looked at me. Her dark eyes went completely opaque, much like Calista’s did whenever a vision came upon her. I was told mine did the same. Eunice smiled and I knew she was back with me.

“You’ll be okay,” she whispered. “Though I don’t completely understand why you’ll be okay. Just remember that you have great power hidden within you. And try to stay out of the line of fire. I have some salve in my rooms to help with the burns if you need it.”

“Shit,” I said, already dreading what was to come. How could I be burned badly enough to need salve, but not burned badly enough to turn to ash? I was afraid to find out.

The deep timbre of Julian’s voice resonated through the hall and snapped me back to reality.

“What did you find, Xana?”

“It is as you claimed, my lord. They are all gone. There is no trace that we can find.”

I was beginning to get the picture, and I could feel the swell of Julian’s heat replace the cold and wrap itself around his body like a cloak.

The silence in the hall was deafening, and Drakán throughout the room reached for their mates as their worst nightmares became a reality.

“What happened? Were there any witnesses?” Julian asked.

“It is just as you saw. A group of our clansmen were on their way here tonight, from different locations, using different modes of transportation—none of them were connected in any way other than their destination. They all had their mates with them, and then somewhere between where they began and here, the Drakán just disappeared into nothingness. By my estimation, including the other clans’ losses, the total of missing Drakán is now close to a thousand. With more being taken every day.”

Anger vibrated around the room as outraged beasts railed against the human husks that housed them. These were their own brethren, and they wanted to hunt for who’d done this to them.

“Someone has transported them to another Realm where I cannot pinpoint their location,” Julian said. “But they left this Realm alive.”

Xana nodded. “I’ve collected all the human mates of the missing and put them in the front parlor.” She waved her hand and the large doors to the gathering hall opened by an unseen force. It was then I could hear the low, keening wails of the grief-stricken. It was a sound I’d never heard before, and one I hoped never to hear again. Maybe human emotions weren’t so great after all.

Julian’s face was a mask, but I could feel his pain at the loss and heartbreak of his people as if it were my own. Then something crossed my mind. Maybe all of this could have been prevented if Julian had actually put some effort into finding the Destroyer when this all started. He’d obviously known about it from the start, and more extensively than I did, since I didn’t have complete access to other clan information like Julian. He

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