Caged Lightning (Shadows of the Immortals Book 5) by Marina Finlayson

Author:Marina Finlayson [Finlayson, Marina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Finesse Solutions
Published: 2018-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

10

We fled into the jungle. I had wet sand in my shoes and a stitch in my side, but I’d never moved faster in my life, leaping over roots that would have entangled my feet and ducking and weaving around plants and tree branches at top speed. Apollo, with Jake slung over his shoulder in a fireman’s lift, was just ahead of me, and Manannan was somewhere in front of him, judging by the sounds of something big crashing through the jungle. We were making more noise than a herd of elephants, but none of us cared. Our number one priority was escaping the murderous monstrosities on the beach.

Apollo pulled up so abruptly that I almost ran straight into his back. “Stop,” he gasped. “Listen.”

I stopped, but all I could hear was the thundering of my own heart. “What?”

“They’re not following us.”

I turned to look back, but I couldn’t see the beach anymore, only the trail of snapped branches and crushed ferns we’d left behind us. He was right; once I got my breathing under control and listened, there was no sound behind us. It was as if the life had been sucked straight from the warriors the minute we’d passed under the shadow of the trees.

I shooed away a cloud of buzzing insects. That lasted all of three seconds, of course, so I used my powers to gently suggest to the tiny bloodsuckers that they might prefer the view on the other side of the island.

“I can’t believe it was that easy,” Manannan said, wiping sweat from his face as he rejoined us. He’d probably been too focused on staying alive to worry about regulating his body temperature.

“That wasn’t easy,” I said, a little shortly. My shoes and socks were soaked with seawater, my heart was still pounding, and I was worried about my favourite fireshaper. “Not for Jake, anyway.”

“No, of course not.” He noticed my wet feet and dried them with a wave of his hand. “How is he?”

Apollo bent down and lowered him to the ground.

Blue eyes blinked blearily up at us. “Everyone all right?”

I crouched down beside him. His face had a grey tinge I didn’t like. “More to the point, are you all right?”

“I’ll be fine,” he said, his eyes searching my face as if he needed to see for himself that I really was unharmed. Stupid, stupid man. “Just a little tired.”

“You did well,” Apollo said.

Jake’s eyelids sagged closed. “Thanks.”

He’d forgotten to add “my lord” on the end of that. He really was exhausted. I glanced up at Apollo. “Can you give him some energy?”

Apollo cocked an eyebrow at me. “How do you mean?”

“When Jake and I were in the underworld and I was injured, Jake sort of breathed energy into me, and I felt better.” I looked to Jake for confirmation, or a more technical description of what he’d actually done, but he appeared to have fallen asleep. It had felt a lot like kissing, but I couldn’t quite find the words to suggest to my brother that he ought to play tonsil hockey with his Ruby Adept.

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