Hail to the King by Julius St Clair

Author:Julius St Clair [Clair, Julius St]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Legendary Publishing House
Published: 2016-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17 – Sometimes When We Win, We Lose

A pang in her heart told her that she should have gone after her children.

But she believed in them.

Perhaps Kyran would have done different. No, he would have certainly done differently. In a strange way, he was more committed to the children than she was. But she was sure they would be safe. Thorn didn’t want to kill them. He wanted to indoctrinate, which she was sure Kyran would say was worse, but she would deal with that later.

The city below was world-renown, and full of possibilities. It gave people hope that had never even visited it before, and that was saying something. Saving it was certainly more…no…

Chloe stopped running and looked behind her.

She had made a mistake.

She really should have gone after the children.

Because after the humiliation he had suffered, there was no way Thorn would allow the city to thrive. At best, he would take the most important resources and then destroy the buildings and the people entirely. And he could do this…whenever he wanted. She couldn’t protect the city forever, and all he had to do was wait for his opportunity.

“No,” she whined aloud as she sprinted for the lip of the mountain. She had messed up so badly. So, so, badly.

She heard crying.

Chloe grit her teeth and leapt up as high as she could, clearing the lip of the mountain and landing on her feet on the other side. Several yards below, she could see the shadow of someone reaching out to her. A fog had descended over the summit, and even with her eidolon and Sage abilities on full alert, she couldn’t see right through it.

Chloe ran down quickly and skidded to a stop.

Milo was covered in pebbles and dirt. His right side was resting up against a jagged rock, sticking up out of the mountainside. Chloe winced as she cut the rock in two with her eidolon, and then she sheathed it.

Milo wept as she bent down and pulled him into her lap. Once her arms were around him, he fell unconscious, and she let him sleep as she studied his body for life-threatening wounds. Beside a small puncture from where the jagged rock had pierced him, he had a couple broken ribs, and his ankle was sprained. It could have been worse.

Chloe sighed and glanced around her.

It was quiet, and the fog somehow made the ambience even more disconcerting.

She felt hollow inside.

For she knew that Emma was already gone.

She allowed the tip of her eidolon appear from her palm. She stretched her arm above her head and closed her eyes, concentrating on her daughter, but there was nothing. She could only sense the life of the people in the city below, still happy, still alive.

“Come here,” Chloe said, sheathing the tip of her eidolon and pulling Milo close to her.

She wasn’t going anywhere.

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