Inquisitor by John Barrowman

Author:John Barrowman [John & Carole E. Barrowman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781856444
Publisher: Head of Zeus

44.

Smoke on the Water

The sweet heavenly voice that had come from the ground. Luca whirled about. The Conjuror was here? He could take him…

Before he could fully process the thought into action, the peryton stabbed her antlers deep into Luca’s side. He howled, filling the sky with his agony, twisting and swooping as he tried to escape. He couldn’t. They were locked together. With the sky a deep purple behind him, Luca made a full transformation to his bestial self. His massive torso stretched and scaled over, the silver edges of his black wings hardened to diamond stilettos and his long-tapered hands became claws. His hair flamed behind him, setting the clouds on fire, his fury raging through the atmosphere. These islands were meant to be deserted.

He grasped the jagged antlers in order to wrangle the beast, but they were colder than ice and held a charge that shot up his torso, lighting up his scales. For an instant, he lost feeling in his tapered fingers. He tore his claws away. The peryton’s eyes were hard as glass, glazed as if fired in some great kiln. The beast was focused with a power Luca hadn’t faced in a long time. Numbness began to creep through his body. She was freezing him from the inside out. He somersaulted desperately through the deep purple sky, but he could not shake her.

Had indulging his human side weakened him, as Cecilia had said? He raged as the peryton shook her mighty head, tossing him from side to side, as if he were a rival for her territory. With every whip of her body, Luca felt his strength waning. There was only one thing he could do. The Conjuror would have to wait.

I will endure.

Luca rocketed out over the western islands of Scotland until he was above open water. Grasping the peryton’s antlers one more time, roaring at the shock of the cold, he flipped and plunged towards the rough water. The two of them shattered the surface of the sea in a torpedo of light.

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