Fairy Magic by Ella Summers

Author:Ella Summers [Summers, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
Published: 2016-05-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

The Midnight Cape

THE DARK TUNNEL of the necromancer’s hideout was cold and damp. Compared to the heat of the spirit realm, it was a regular winter blizzard. A sliver of light cut through the darkness from the open doorway at the end of the tunnel. Her footfalls cushioned against the mulch ground, Naomi crept into a cavernous underground chamber.

She was greeted by the sight of a dozen dead bodies strewn across the ground. Alex and Logan stood opposite a woman in a dark cloak that flowed like black honey and simmered with spirit magic. The Midnight Cape. And the woman must have been the crazy, magic-enhanced Convictionite Alex had mentioned. She was kneeling before one of the corpses, picking through her belongings like a scavenger.

“What are you going to do with the artifacts?” Alex demanded of her, her voice as clear as crystal in the rotting room.

Slow and easy, Naomi inched toward the woman. If she was anything like Logan, her keen senses would pick up even the slightest rasp of movement. Luckily, Alex was doing her best to draw the Convictionite’s attention, buying Naomi the time she needed to grab the Midnight Cape.

“You’ll see,” the Convictionite said.

“Ah, so you don’t really have a plan beyond keeping them away from Majestic.” Alex opened her mouth and yawned loudly. “How anticlimactic.”

“I do have a plan.”

So did Naomi: to grab the cloak and knock this psychopath on her ass. She’d kidnapped Marek’s mother. Naomi didn’t know Margery Kensington very well, but she’d come to consider Marek a friend.

The Convictionite rose. “I have a grand plan and it’s nothing as ostentatious as leading an army of dead like Majestic wanted to do. Honestly, the woman had no finesse. No subtlety. She was all brute force. Burning through buildings. Legions of the dead. Exploding corpses.” She let out a haughty laugh. “No subtlety. No style.”

Just a few more steps.

“And you have style?” Alex asked her.

“I have much better plans for the Ornaments of the Dead. Nothing as crude as an undead army. I will use the Ornaments to communicate with spirits, to use them as spies.”

What was it lately with people and dipping their feet into the rivers of hell? Didn’t they realize that there was a divide between earth and the spirit realms for a reason?

“You can’t let her do it,” Eva said. “The Ornaments of the Dead will allow her to free spirits from the spirit realm. She would have the spirit of every human who has ever hated supernaturals at her beck and call. She could give them the power to take solid form like some ghosts can do.”

Alex’s eyes narrowed. “And with that power, she will set all of those spirits against the world’s supernaturals.”

“A beautiful plan, don’t you think?” the Convictionite said.

“I think it is a dark and wicked plan, born from an evil, depraved soul,” Alex told her. “Just what I’d expect from the likes of you.”

“That’s rich coming from—” The Convictionite spun around, her eyes lighting up with surprise when they saw Naomi.

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