Faerie Wrath (The Changeling Chronicles Book 4) by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams [Adams, Emma L.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Published: 2016-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

“Found anything new?” asked Vance. I sat on the bed, eyes on the necromancer handbook, while he lay at my side, his arm curled around my back.

Luckily, nobody had accosted us back at the manor. We’d had dinner out on the balcony, cocooned in a spell that kept the cold air from reaching us. A while ago, I might have objected to Vance wasting the mages’ spells on unnecessary extravagance, but what the hell, I’d had another shit day and needed some quiet time with Vance. But the sight of the guards standing outside reminded me of the creepy voice I’d heard in the manor before. Vance believed me, but none of the wards had been breached and nobody else had heard the voice. So I’d pulled out the necromancer handbook to see if it contained any answers.

I showed him the yellowing pages. “I’m trying to figure out how Calder might have slipped through the cracks.”

Vance leaned over to see. “Layers of the veil?”

“Yeah, it’s a tricky one,” I said. “Most necromancers never get past the first layer, which is the one ghosts hang out in. It’s like a separate realm, stacked on top of our own one.” I paused, tracing lines on the page with my fingertip. “A dead person—or half-faerie—immediately passes to the veil, which is the first layer. There, they’re usually drawn right to the gate which leads Beyond… wherever that is. Most spirits are sent there without ever having to talk to a necromancer, but Guardians like Frank are on constant patrol to make sure nobody gets left behind.”

Vance nodded. “That’s as much as they teach non-necromancers. Two layers… the veil, and Beyond. If you ask a necromancer to recall a spirit, they have to come from the veil’s first layer. Hence why you can only contact the recently deceased.”

“Yeah, well. What with all the ruckus around the veil lately, it sounds like more and more people have been slipping through the cracks and getting left behind when they’re meant to go Beyond. If they have a certain number of necromancer Guardians in charge of banishing spirits… Frank implied they lost half their Guardians in the invasion, when… when I guess they shoved every spirit through the gate into the Beyond, so they couldn’t be recalled.”

Vance gave another slow nod. “Yes. There was no system for dealing with a greater number of dead. Evidently, there still isn’t. It sounds, however, like somebody is using necromancy to raise undead reanimates as a way to give a spiritual boost to certain ghosts.”

“Calder,” I said. “But I don’t get how a dead person can do that. He must be acting through somebody living.”

“Following what Velkas told him,” said Vance. “He gained knowledge from the necromancers himself, did he not?”

I sat up. “You’re right. But that means… Calder might have recruited anyone.”

Vance placed a hand on my arm. “Not now. We’ll speak to the Chief tomorrow, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the jailbreak incident was caused by the person behind this.

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