Feudlings in Smoke by Wendy Knight

Author:Wendy Knight [Knight, Wendy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Astraea Press, LLC
Published: 2014-02-08T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Will felt pretty good about himself. He'd fought in a battle and hadn't died. That was always a bonus. It was the first time he'd been outside the colony in years. So that was fun, too. But the best part was that he had saved his sister from inside the colony. All in all, a good day.

Until Ari came home.

On the phone, requesting a saldepement, she sounded sweet enough. He should have realized it was all a ruse. As soon as the doorway opened she stormed through with all the power of a hurricane, shaking off a shroud spell as she did. “Have you lost your mind, Will?” She swore, twice, her eyes spitting fire. “Do you have any idea how close you came to dying?”

He grinned at her.

“Stop that! I almost lost you!” she bellowed.

He tried to rearrange his face, but he wasn't fast enough. Sparks lit at her fingers, which was saying something since she only had so much magic and should have just used quite a bit of it fighting. “Ari, I had to do something. They could have killed you—”

“I can't be killed, Will! The Carules Prodigy wasn't there! He doesn't fight!”

“What if the prophesy is wrong, Ari?”

She folded her arms across her chest and glared at him. “It isn't. How did you know to come, anyway?”

“Dani's mother told us.”

Ari paled, so much so that her dark eyes looked like orbs in her face. She paced, which was apparently a family trait. “Do you realize how much danger that put them in? If the Council finds out, Will, they'll use that against her. They'll use her family—”

“I know. They'll use her family to get to me, to get to you. I told her that. She didn't believe me.”

It was then that Will finally caught sight of the burns on her arm, traveling up her shoulder. The gear on her side was badly damaged, too. “You're hurt.”

She threw her hands up. “Of course I'm hurt. I'm always hurt! Stop changing the subject.” She narrowed her eyes at him. “And don't you try to feed me any of that yucky tea again.”

He laughed. He couldn't help it. “I'll ask Ward to come heal you. He had to heal Dani today so he's all warmed up.”

The sparks died instantly. “Dani got hurt?”

Oh. He probably shouldn't have mentioned that. “Yeah, she came with me…”

“And. You. Let. Her?” she yelled.

“She went first, actually. I was lucky to just get a shroud on her so her own people didn't turn against her, as well.”

She glared at him for several more seconds before the vehemence seemed to die and the rigid set of her shoulders relaxed. “No one says 'as well', Will,” she snapped mildly.

He snickered as he jogged out the door.

When he returned with Ward, he made Ari give him a rundown of the battle. Dani was still sleeping in his bed, despite all Ari's yelling, and he was inclined to let her rest, lest she get a lecture from the angry Edren Prodigy as well.

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