Haunted Moon by Galenorn Yasmine

Author:Galenorn, Yasmine [Galenorn, Yasmine]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781101619193
Publisher: Jove
Published: 2013-01-29T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“Don’t attack!” I frantically waved the others back. “Retreat. Get out of their line of fire.” I raced behind the nearest cedar, hoping to hell everybody was behind me. I leaned against the tree, shaking. The others were right on my heels. As soon as I was sure they were out of danger, too, I motioned for Shade to watch our backs.

“Are you hurt?” I asked Delilah as Keo took a look at her burns.

“Yeah, they sting, but the burns are superficial. What’s going on? Why did you tell us to get out of there?” Delilah was digging her blade into the tree.

“Because those people are some of the witches from the Aleksais Psychic Network. I recognize a few from seeing them in Mystic Charms. We can’t attack them—they’re under a spell, or brainwashed, or something like that.”

A thought occurred to me, and I darted a quick look back around the tree trunk, hoping to see Faerman’s wife, but she was nowhere among the group as far I could see. Couldn’t have it easy for once, could we?

I leaned against the tree. “So what do we do? We can’t attack them, even if they attack us.”

“I agree.” Delilah frowned. “Is there a way to break whatever spell they’re under? To free them from whatever is controlling them?”

“No, because we have no clue of how they’re being influenced. It might be a spell, but it also might be simple brainwashing techniques. Or maybe…some sort of psychic leech connected to them? We really have no way of knowing without capturing one of them to find out. And considering they seem to be wielding magic beyond what most FBH pagans and witches can work, we’d be in danger if we tried.” I bit my lip.

Morio crossed his arms. “Well, we can’t just stay here the rest of the day. What about that gray orb? Any clue as to what it is?”

Shade stepped to the side. “I’ll see what I can find out.” But after a moment, he let out an exasperated noise. “Not enough shadow for me to work in, damn it. I was going to shadow-walk over there, but for once the sun is out and there aren’t enough areas in the shade for me to manage it.”

“Let me take a look on the astral.” Vanzir vanished before we could say anything. I hoped to hell he could find something. It sucked to be stumped like this. If we could just take the witches down, we’d have no problem, but we were the good guys. And good guys didn’t take out innocent pawns.

A moment later, Vanzir reappeared. He looked shaken. “Okay, so look over there and tell me what you see now.”

I glanced back around the tree trunk. The zombies had reached the line of witches but instead of attacking them, they were walking toward the gray mass and…and what the hell? They were disappearing into it. As each zombie walked into the blob, there was a spark of light and it vanished.

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