Celestial Ashes: The Celestial Marked Series: Book Three by Adams Emma L

Author:Adams, Emma L.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-01-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Warlocks milled about inside the entrance hall. Some lay on the ground while others bound up their injuries with bandages. A sombre air covered the place. I stood with Rachel, knowing I was lucky to be alive myself.

“The enemy’s in here?” I asked quietly. “They sure don’t look like traitors.”

“Maybe, but I don’t trust them,” said Rachel. “What did Zadok want?”

“To recruit me. Same old. He’s hinting that he holds all the secrets, et cetera. Don’t worry, I’m not listening to him.”

“Good,” she said. “It’s not good that he’s fixed his attention on you. I think he’s looking for allies. He’s lonely.”

“He shuts himself up in the tower and attacks anyone who goes near. It’s his fault.” I shook my head. “I’d say he has a crush on me, but I don’t think it’s that. He seems to think his brother’s corrupting my mortal soul.”

“Only if you believe in such a thing.” She shrugged. “Mine’s damned anyway. So are all of ours. But we’re less doomed than those poor souls under the castle.”

“He claimed to know secrets about them, too,” I said. “He said Nikolas imprisoned them on his father’s orders and has no intention of letting them out.”

“Now he’s talking crap,” she said. “Sure, it’s true that they locked the fallen underground because the shadow demon said so, but they’re also corrupt, immortal, and attack everything they meet. They’d be just as dangerous outside. Here, they have some measure of protection. But they didn’t do this. They wouldn’t have the strength to open a portal even if they could.”

“Do they still have celestial magic, or…?”

She shook her head. “No. Not like you do, anyway. I don’t know much about them. I found out because they attacked me the first time I came here, probably on Zadok’s orders. He hates that Niko pretty much adopted me as a sister without his permission.”

“I thought it was something like that. No excuse to throw you out a window, though.”

“I sometimes think Zadok assumes everyone’s as invincible as he is.”

I frowned. “He doesn’t act like it, hiding in his tower all the time. You’d think he’d have come and helped. I mean, this is his realm, and they were right outside his tower.”

“Hmm. Maybe he’s scared of fire demons. Or demigods. He has no trouble trying to smite Nikolas on a daily basis.”

Good point. Not only had he sat out two battles, he’d stopped trying to kill me after my encounter with Themedes had caused me to take on his power. Might his weakness be fire? Not that I was scared of the guy anyway, but that was knowledge that I might put to good use.

“No wonder he helped me right after I figured out how to use divine fire,” I said. “He was probably hiding from Emarial. But she disappeared. And she can’t be pulling the strings. Someone sent her to kill me.”

And she’d almost succeeded. I cast another look around at the warlocks, wishing I could see auras which might give away who’d betrayed us to the enemy and set up a portal here.

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