Dragon Justice by Laura Anne Gilman
Author:Laura Anne Gilman
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: LUNA
Published: 2012-03-26T16:00:00+00:00
Chapter 11
A summons like that, you don’t screw around with finding a cab and risking city traffic. We found a quiet space behind one of the pillars guarding the entrance, out of direct sight of anyone passing on the street, and waited until the entrance itself was clear. With a quick visual confirm from Venec that the inner hallway was also clear, we Translocated back to the one place we knew well enough: the hotel.
The room was surprisingly crowded. Venec, as usual, was holding up a wall, his arms crossed against his chest. He was utterly still in a way that meant something was wrong, but I’d known that from the feel of his ping. Sharon was perched on the desk, her shoes off and legs swinging gently. When she was calm, she was utterly still. She wasn’t calm now.
The surprise guests were a tall, handsome man with dark hair liberally shot with gray and an equally tall, dark-skinned girl.
I knew them both.
“Sergei. Is Wren all right? Is—” Had trying to run through Venec’s security wall gotten her hurt? I thought it but didn’t speak the thought out loud. If Ben’s system had hurt her… Shit shit shit.
“Wren’s fine,” her partner told me, his gaze the same warm, reassuring brown as always. Sergei Didier was the kind of guy who, if he told you it would be okay as the Titanic sank under you, you’d believe him. “But we seem to have an…interesting development.”
I turned to the girl with him. “Ellen?” She didn’t meet my eyes. She wasn’t meeting anyone’s eyes, in fact, staring at the carpet like it was the most fascinating thing in the room. It wasn’t.
I checked her over once, visually, looking for any injuries, anything that might explain her behavior, then looked at Venec, who shook his head slightly, meaning that he didn’t know what was going on, either.
That meant Sergei had brought Ellen down here himself. He was a Null, and Wren was crap at Translocating—and Ellen didn’t have a clue about Talent, much less any training, so there was no way she’d done it.
That meant they’d taken the train—or driven. Knowing Sergei, I was pretty sure he could drive, New Yorker or not.
And they’d come to us, not Wren, who was still somewhere in the area. Had known to come to us…how? More to the point, why?
I shook off my dithering and just asked. “What happened?”
“It would seem, if I have my terminology right,” Sergei said, his voice slow and deliberate and just a little too aware of the show he was making, “that our girl here is a storm-seer.”
You know that old saying about being able to hear a pin drop? It’s not true. When it gets that quiet, all you can hear is the sound of the blood in your skull, thump-thump-thumping.
“Bloody hell,” Pietr said in a whisper, his voice somewhere between disbelief and awe, and then the sound came back, cranked to eleven.
“There hasn’t been a certified aeromancer in…” My memory failed me.
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