Immortal (The Awakening Volume 2) (The Awakening Series) by Dean Murray

Author:Dean Murray [Murray, Dean]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Fir'shan Publishing
Published: 2015-03-24T00:00:00+00:00

Journal Entry

April 3, 1724

Kyle has been after me to practice my English. I tell him it doesn't matter, that I'm still going to sound French, but it turns out he's less worried about my accent than he is about the notes I've been sending him.

Tensions between here and the Continent are running high again and it looks exceedingly bad for a recently elevated count of the realm to be seen receiving notes written in a tongue that most of the royal family has never bothered to learn. So much for the advantages of a classical education.

I tried to convince Kyle to deputize Jace to go in his place, but he's been even less flexible than usual with regards to those kinds of things here in our new home. I truly wish we'd been able to stay in Paris. We had such a good life there, but the four of us simply can't match Nikoli's thugs.

I simply can't do justice to the outrage I feel every time I think about our loss. Despite all our learning, despite the fruits of decades of careful, inspired research, we're still at the mercy of bullies like the Kiev pantheon. The human world has seen a resurgence of civilization over the last few lifetimes, but among our kind, might is still what makes right.

I suppose Kyle is right. We can't afford to risk our position here—not unless we're prepared to journey across the ocean and try to make a life for ourselves there. Jace and Kat are both enamored of the idea, but there is no telling what might await us there. Better the devil we know than a dangerous trip into darkness. Our research is simply too important to risk on some flight of fancy.

We aren't the only pantheon here in England, but Ashwell's group seems content to leave us alone for now as long as we continue to work towards the best interest of the nobility. The royal family is still completely unaware that we are anything more than we claim, but Kyle is right. All it would take is a hint of treason for us to find royal guardsmen on our doorstep with orders to see us to a prison.

They couldn't take us anywhere we didn't want to go, of course, but I'm tired of killing humans, and even our kind can't stand off the might of an entire nation indefinitely. All of which means I must practice my written English, just like I must smile at all of the right people while attending all of the necessary parties.

For the first time in decades I find myself envying Jace and Katrina. They have none of the power or prestige that Kyle and I currently enjoy, but they have freedom. Kat has taken a human lover, a charming middle-aged cobbler whose head is positively spinning at the gifts and attention she lavishes upon him.

Jace…well, Jace is still Jace. He hasn't taken a mistress, hasn't been with any woman since he broke things off

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