Forgotten Darkness by Cannon Sarra

Author:Cannon, Sarra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Young Adult Urban Fantasy, Contemporary Fantasy Series, Coming of Age, Witches and magic, Teen Horror, Dark Fantasy, Paranormal and Urban Fantasy series
ISBN: 978-1-62421-046-4
Publisher: Dead River Books
Published: 2016-03-24T16:00:00+00:00

Not Alone

Trention kept my secret, and in return, I helped him in the sapphire fields when the guards weren’t looking. In the evenings, when most of the other demons had gone to sleep, he often came to sit by my side.

At first, we talked about the stories I remembered from my childhood and shared the things we missed most about our lives when we had been free. Lately, though, he’d been asking a lot of questions about my time in the human world.

As I grew to trust the old demon, I told him everything I knew about the Order and how Harper and the others had defeated the sapphire priestess.

“For ages, we have been told there was no way to stop what the Order was doing here,” he said when he came to sit down late one night. “How did a human girl figure it out? It’s remarkable.”

“She’s half-demon, too,” I said, smiling.

“Yes, yes, of course,” he said. “But still, she’s so young compared to most. Barely more than a child, really.”

“She is remarkable,” I said, my voice tinged with sadness. The last I’d heard of Harper was that she’d been taken by the emerald priestess. She’d managed to save my brother and sister, but had somehow been captured in the process. Ezrah told me that no one knew where she was or if she was still alive.

But I knew she was alive. The bond that had held me to her family for so long still lingered somewhere inside me, and I could feel the beating of her heart. It was faint, but clear. She’d been through something terrible recently. Torture so horrific it was amazing she’d survived. But Harper was stronger than most people gave her credit for.

She was fighting, and I wanted to be out there looking for her. I knew that Jackson would do everything he could to find her, but she was far away. I couldn’t explain it, but it was more than just the distance between the Shadow World and the human world. There was some other magic at play.

“You care for the girl,” Trention said.

“I was bound to protect her,” I said. “And without her, I would still be a slave to the Order, along with thousands of other demons.”

“You said she stole the heart of the priestess?” he asked.

I nodded. “For centuries, everyone believed that the priestess controlling each of the five colors of gates lived a normal human life-span of no more than seventy or eighty years at most,” I said. “When she died, we believed her demon passed to her eldest daughter, who then became Prima. That’s the way it works with all the gates, so it seemed logical that it was the same with the priestesses. But Harper discovered that each of the five priestesses had never died. They were the same exact witches who had first opened the original gates almost two hundred years ago.”

“But how is that possible? Humans don’t normally live so long,” he said.

“It’s not possible,” I said.

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