Fire's Daughter by India Arden

Author:India Arden [Arden, India]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: India Arden
Published: 2018-06-18T16:00:00+00:00

19

I heard the footsteps on the other side of the wall—my brother’s gait taps a particular cadence against the marble—and I knew the maid hadn’t been steering me wrong.

“Regroup,” I gasped, and whirled around to retreat. My first fear was that the Rebels would slow me down, since three people are a lot harder to hide than one. But it turned out exactly the opposite: Zephyr sprinted up ahead and held the door open for both of us. And Rain grabbed me by the arm and encouraged me to keep up with his long-legged stride. We were out the sliding door and threading through the outbuildings by the time Blaze got to the receiving lounge, so there was no way of him knowing we’d been there. Unless we’d left some sort of trace.

Unless the maid talked.

Or, unless she didn’t have to. Because Blaze had Arcane powers now. And for all I knew, he could sense some sort of disturbance, and no matter what he was told, somehow, he just knew.

We dropped down into the sewer and the guys struggled to pull the hatch shut behind us. Rain said, “They’ll see. It’ll be so freaking obvious, the dirt, the grass clippings, they’ll all form a path leading right to us.”

“Just get the damn thing shut, and I’ll handle it.” Zephyr dropped down off the ladder, closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and went still—probably the first time I’d ever seen him stop moving. His lips were distractingly nice, with a pronounced bow to his upper lip.

Rain dragged the cover into position with a metallic scrape, then hopped down beside me. Zephyr remained motionless. Eerily so. I could tell that even Rain—the mellowest guy of the bunch—was antsy to get going. Zephyr must’ve felt it, the two of us dying to go splashing off down the old tunnel before my brother and whoever else he might have Transfigured put a gun to our heads…or, worse, took us apart with their power. But just as I opened my mouth to suggest we’d better move, Zephyr raised one arm, palm-up toward the ceiling, and the breath rushed from my body.

The tunnel lit with a burst of blue light, as if someone had snapped a flash photo. Outside, the wind howled so loud, we heard it even through yards of earth, brick and concrete. When Zephyr opened his eyes, they glowed a cold and cutting blue, glaring enough to light the tunnel like a flashlight. “It’s done.” Even his voice had shifted. Ethereal. Chilling. “Our tracks are covered. Let’s go.”

Rain was first to take off, forging ahead, listening to the water to pick our path through the shifting shadows. I was right on his heels—until I heard a big splash behind me. I whirled around. Zephyr was down on hands and knees in the reeking muck, his hat bobbing upside-down beside him. I must’ve expected him to pop back up like a jack-in-the-box. But he didn’t. He floundered.

With zero hesitation, I ran to his side and knelt in the filthy water.

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