Dark Harvest (Darkling Mage Book 2) by Nazri Noor

Author:Nazri Noor [Noor, Nazri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soren Summers
Published: 2018-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

“Huh. You know, I’m not sure what I was expecting.”

Gil scratched the side of his nose as we both watched the compound. “You know, me neither. I guess I thought things would be, I don’t know, more decrepit, somehow? Inhospitable, even.”

The compound looked a lot homier than we’d anticipated. The garden was properly tended, the house itself midsize, and maybe recently painted, too, not at all like the rundown mess I was expecting. It looked a little too nice for something so close to the Gridiron.

The entire thing was gated, sure, but again it didn’t completely make sense. The compound just looked so domestic, and thoroughly unsecured. No barbed wire, even. It looked, by all appearances, like someone’s house, and maybe that made me a little more nervous. We were properly going to break and enter this time, not just slip in through the shadows.

But what really made me nervous was the gaggle of young people sitting outside, maybe a half dozen men – boys, almost – just chilling at the tables under the veranda in the garden. They were smiling, drinking beer, smoking, not at all an average weekday afternoon in Valero. And they weren’t all wearing the same robes or sweatsuits, either, nothing at all like a cult. This was the Viridian Dawn?

I can’t lie. It made me a little queasy knowing that we were going to beat the living tar out of these kids if they got in the way. I mean, I could tell Vanitas to take it easy and just bash his way through the masses with his scabbard, but Gil had his claws, and Sterling hardly knew his own strength. And who knew what Carver would do?

“They’re just kids,” I said, keeping still so I wouldn’t rustle the bushes we were staking out from. “Maybe we should have scouted first.”

“No time, remember? And Carver specifically said he didn’t want you doing that. You might think shadowstepping can let you slip in and out like butter wherever you want, but you never know when the place could be warded. What if you get in, and you can’t get out?”

I stared at him incredulously, then pointed at the veranda. “This isn’t a cult. It’s a kegger. Those are children in there. Do you really think they know what they’re doing?”

“Shh. Shut up. Wait for the signal. It’s almost time.”

I watched the sun as it beat overhead, biting back the urge to complain about the stifling heat. We were both dressed in black, just to make sure the infiltration would go down well, and Gil had even painted a couple of black stripes under his eyes. He said it was to help keep him hidden, but I totally knew he did it to look cool. I was kind of jealous, honestly.

I watched the ring at my finger, impatience stirring in my belly. The ring was a loaner from Carver, and the amber gem set in it was supposed to be our go signal. When it glowed, it was time to activate Amaterasu’s mirror.

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