City of Gods and Monsters (House of Devils Book 1) by Kayla Edwards

Author:Kayla Edwards [Edwards, Kayla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-01-24T18:30:00+00:00

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“I thought you were fluent in Ancient Reunerian,” Logan said to Darien as he took a swig of beer. The wolf was lounging across from him at the patio table at Hell’s Gate, watching with amusement as he and Loren jotted down letters in the open notebook that sat between them. A full moon hung overhead, brightening the night. “Why’s a little scroll like that taking you so long to decipher?”

Darien pulled his gaze from the lantern-lit Dominus Volumen and shot Logan a hard look. “Why don’t you go play fetch with the Familiars? I’m sure they would love for a pup like you to join in on their fun.”

In the centre of the yard, not far from where Sabrine and Ivy were roasting coco-mallows over the firepit, Darien’s Familiar sparred with Dallas’s winged tiger for a murkball the witch had thrown into the shrubs.

Logan gave Darien a dirty look but got up and went to join Sabrine at the firepit. The wolf-witch looked more than a little happy to see Logan approaching her, and Darien was more than a little happy to be alone with Loren. The clock had ticked at a painfully slow pace all day until he was finally able to get back to Hell’s Gate and see her again.

Paper fluttered as Loren flipped through the book on Ancient Reunerian. It was their last day before the old tome would teleport itself back to the library. Darien had deciphered enough of the scroll to conclude that the chemicals the Butcher’s anonymous client had ordered were the very same ones necessary to create the Arcanum Well, written in the scroll under codenames that’d taken a million years to decipher. But it wasn’t just the chemicals that were needed.

The scroll spoke of a material that formed the Well itself—the tub, for lack of a better word. But that part of the scroll involved words so ageless and elusive, even this old book insisted on keeping them secret. Darien hoped if they could find out what this Arcanum Well was made of, he might be able to track it with the Sight. Magical artefacts tended to exude their own color into the universe—a vibration he might be able to nail down and trace.

Loren had seemed just as surprised as Darien to hear of the information Calanthe had given them earlier that day—and just as doubtful as Darien that she had any magical tracking ability that might help them find the Well. There had to be a mistake; Loren was human, there was no doubt about that. Perhaps she was related to someone who had been able to track or use this Well, but the odds of her having inherited a magical ability like this… It was unheard of. And it was out of simple curiosity that he had asked Loren earlier that evening to reach within herself, to see if she could feel something in her soul, the same way he could feel the Sight—could feel his various magical gifts. She had come up empty, and more than a little frustrated.

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