Heart of the Rebellion by E. E. Holmes

Author:E. E. Holmes [Holmes, E. E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lily Faire Publishing
Published: 2018-12-03T16:00:00+00:00

12

Game Plan

THE DOOR HAD BARELY CLOSED behind us when Catriona whirled around and fixed the full intensity of her gaze upon me. It wasn’t a glare, necessarily, but she wasn’t exactly capable of a truly sympathetic look, not in her current state of agitation. Or maybe ever.

“Okay,” she said bluntly. “What the hell happened down there?”

I tried to marshall my racing thoughts. The moments following the destruction of the Léarscáil had passed in a frantic blur. Because she was the most senior member of the Council present, Catriona had been able to issue the orders that sent everyone flying off in different directions. She sent the other Council members to round up their sisters and gather in the Council room for a briefing. She sent the majority of the Caomhnóir back to the barracks to wait for orders. She sent Seamus to the top of the North Tower to report to Celeste and inform her of what had happened. And finally, she asked Hannah and Milo to go to the hospital wing and wait for me there. Only two Caomhnóir had remained behind to remove Moira’s broken and battered body from the tower and whisk it off to the hospital ward. What would become of it there, I did not know, and I did not ask. I couldn’t even bear to look back at her as Catriona pulled me by my uninjured arm out of the tower room and dragged me off to the Tracker office.

“It’s this,” I told her, and I pulled Moira’s crumpled piece of parchment from the back pocket of my jeans and spread it on the desk in front of us. Catriona squinted down at it, then cursed, and pulled a pair of cat’s eye reading glasses from an inside pocket of her leather jacket. She thrust them onto her nose and examined the paper.

“What is this?” she asked me sharply. “What am I looking at here? Am I supposed to be able to make sense of this?”

“This is what Moira was working on when she was killed,” I said, barely able to say the last word without emotion swallowing up my voice entirely. “It’s the Léarscáil map, and the pencil marks are showing the path of the pendulum just now when it was crazy.”

Catriona’s eyes widened. “Are you telling me she actually made sense of this?” she asked, waving a hand over the utter chaos of lines and numbers and markings that crowded the page.

“Yes,” I told her. “I know it seems like the pendulum was just completely out of control, but Moira said that it was a shift in spirit energy that caused it, and this is the paper she used to figure out what that was. She said the source of the chaos was here.” And I tapped my finger on the big red X she had scrawled in the center of the page.

“It’s… Scotland, isn’t it?” Catriona asked, leaning closer to the page so that she could make out the details of the map beneath all the scribbling.

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