Caged in Bone (The Ascension Series) by Reine SM

Author:Reine, SM [Reine, SM]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Red Iris Books
Published: 2013-12-28T10:00:00+00:00

The long trail terminated in a clearing that looked familiar to Elise, though she couldn’t quite put her finger on why. It was a wide, open ring of trees dusted with snow like any of a thousand identical clearings she could probably find in that forest.

Except for the ethereal gate that stood in the center.

“What is that?” Rylie breathed, moving to step around a fallen log.

Elise caught her arm. “Wait.”

The air hummed with energy, and it wasn’t all from the gateway. Elise tipped her head to search for magic in the corner of her eyes.

There were spells in this clearing, very few of them new. They had been grown into the forest, stamped into the earth, woven into the fibers of the flora. The ghosts of a thousand other spells remained on top of that.

This had been Pamela’s clearing, Elise realized with a jolt. When she had lived with Pamela Faulkner, there had been one clearing that was always off-limits. The trail leading there had been obstructed by rope to make it clear Elise wasn’t welcome.

But Elise had still seen the clearing before. Pamela had healed her wounds beside it as the White Ash Coven danced sky-clad around a bonfire at the center. The wildness of the witches had been frightening to Elise as a little girl. The heavy drumming, their cries to the night sky, the pain of the wounds that Elise associated with them—it had haunted her dreams for years after that.

That clearing had been the first place that Elise glimpsed James. Seemed appropriate that it should be the place where she finally dealt with him.

She extended a hand past the log to feel the air. Magic hummed around her. It was old power, decades’ worth of it. All of it latent.

The only new magic fell around the gateway.

“I think it’s safe,” Elise said.

She stepped in front of Rylie anyway, letting the Alpha follow behind.

The doorway brightened as she approached. Elise pulled her jacket around herself, concealing as much of her skin as possible—her chest, her neck, the bottom of her chin.

“I smell them,” Rylie said. There was hope in her voice that hadn’t been there just hours earlier. “I finally smell Abel. It’s getting old, though. I think they went…through. Is that possible?”

“It’s possible,” Elise said grimly.

It was a gateway to a Heavenly dimension. There were several worlds belonging to angels, and it could go to any of them other than the garden; all of those doors had long since been destroyed. There was no way to tell if it would lead to Shamain or Zebul or a Haven. Not until they walked through.

Metaraon must have left a door to Eden somewhere in Heaven, and James was already taking Abel there.

The light between the pillars continued to grow. It was a warm, steady light that hinted at gray worlds filled with angels and glowing cities. The kind of place that was guaranteed to weaken Elise’s powers to the point of uselessness.

James hadn’t just brought her here to make his coven safe.

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