Death on the Horizon (Children of the Apocalypse Book 2) by A.L. Kessler

Author:A.L. Kessler [Kessler, A.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-16T18:30:00+00:00

When the world reappeared, we stood in front of a cave. Wrath threw me off and to the edge of the cliff. Rocks tumbled off the edge and into a dark abyss. I took a deep breath and scooted forward a little, my hands tightening around the scythe as Zachariah started his spell. Wrath swung his hammer against the shield as it appeared. The symbols shuddered and threatened to shatter with each strike. The world around shook as Wrath gave a warrior’s cry. The red and white seal swirled and shrank. The pop it gave echoed from the cave, and the seal appeared against the wall.

“How’s your shoulder?” Zachariah glanced at me. I let my scythe disappear. “Hurts less than the fact that it came from Pete.” I put my hand up to the bleeding would. “Though it sucks that it’s the shoulder I took a hit from Camille in.”

“Let’s get back.” He put his hand on my shoulder and we reappeared in the training warehouse.

“On your knees.” A voice called out. It took my eyes a moment to adjust to the dark, but someone grabbed my wrists and forced them to the top of my head and shoved me down to my knees. My eyes finally adjusted and I could see Pete and Ruthie kneeling with their hands on their heads and looking straight ahead.

I found the gray eyes of Pete to be a comfort now that I knew he wasn’t influenced by Wrath anymore. He mouthed ‘I’m sorry’ to me, and I gave him a small bob of my head.

The grip on my wrists tightened. “Fighting in the city is forbidden for civilians. The punishment for the crime is exile out into the wastelands.”

It didn’t matter. Zachariah and I would be on our way to Hell soon enough, but the others would have to survive in the wastelands until we were able to bring Death back and regroup. Aeron and Kaleb weren’t here. They’d have no idea what was going on.

“Search them for weapons, they all have some peculiar wounds. Certainly, they weren’t trying to fight without weapons.”

I was pulled up and frisked. The guard came up empty handed and I had to smile. I could fight my way out, but I wouldn’t, because the others were taking this calmly. They wouldn’t find my weapon; they couldn’t even touch my weapon. They weren’t worthy of it. They wouldn’t find weapons on the others either, but it didn’t matter. The others weren’t able to wield them properly, and they had turned on me. They would deserve their exile, and it would serve a purpose for Zachariah and me.

I shook my head. What the hell was I thinking about? Ruthie and Pete, they were my partners in this, not people to be just tossed aside. Pete was smart and cunning on the battlefield. Ruthie had saved my ass many times, including the first time I’d seen a demon. Wrath...even now his influences whispered through my mind, trying to get me to turn on my friends.

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