Halfblood 03 - Halfblood Legacy by Laura Rheaume

Author:Laura Rheaume [Rheaume, Laura]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, General, Fantasy, Speculative Fiction, (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯)
ISBN: 9781453729045
Google: 9PC-bwAACAAJ
Amazon: 1453729046
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2010-08-04T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 25

Reave said, “My orders about her are specific. She is to remain with the unit until the objectives are met.”

Scythe didn’t bother arguing with him. This part of the conference was a formality anyway. He and Ian had been given clearance to follow a lead on one of the core members of the terrorist unit; all that was left to do was pick the team, but they were having trouble agreeing on one point.

Reave knew that there was no way that Ian or Scythe was going to permit Mercy to stay behind without them. Ian had only just been reunited with his daughter, so he was not going to leave her side, and Scythe didn’t feel comfortable leaving them behind. They, like the rest of their family, were identified as powered, or in Mercy’s case, potentially powered. Any powered Humans were sought after by groups who hoped to gain from the use of them. One of the groups was the Scere, the organization Reave and Scythe worked for. So they stood and argued, but all three already knew how it was going to turn out.

Ian said, “We will still be part of the unit, Captain, even if we are not here. This is merely a…”

Scythe felt something in the back of his head fluctuate. Power, he knew instinctively. He looked over at Ian, but the man was still talking animatedly to Reave.

It was small, though, so small that it made him think of the Humans he had run into over the years who had powers but didn’t know it. People like that went about their lives not understanding why strange things would happen to them. Since Humans were so good at manipulating their environment from the inside of their heads, they could shrug off the little inexplicable incidents that their untamed powers caused; they chalked it up to coincidence and went on with their well constructed lives.

Scythe could see it, even feel it in them, because he was very sensitive to power in others. He would see a little wavy ball, a thin coat of white power that covered them, or a faint shimmer around one particular part of the body, like the hands or the legs.

That’s what this felt like, a shimmer. He reached out, sending a wave of his energy in the direction he thought it was coming from. He wasn’t very good at projecting power out of his body like that, so it was a little feeble.

Then the shimmer bubbled up into something bigger.

“I’ll be right back,” he said and left the room. Behind him, there was stunned silence and then Ian’s step.

They were heading toward the courtyard, which was a strange place for someone hiding their power to be using it openly; it should have been packed with nighttime socializing.

“What is it?” Ian asked from behind him.

“Can you feel anything, Ian? A power buildup?”

“Power? Hmm. Yeah, there is something, now that you mention it, but it’s light.”

It wasn’t that light...it didn’t feel light to him. No.

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