Jonathan Moeller - The Ghosts 06 - Ghost in the Forge by Jonathan Moeller

Author:Jonathan Moeller [Moeller, Jonathan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy - Female Assassin
ISBN: 9781301962549
Publisher: Azure Flame Media, LLC
Published: 2013-02-22T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15 - Red Steel

Kylon looked at the two Ghosts. He did not think they would attack him, but caution rarely went amiss.

And he had not thought two Ghosts could face a battle magus of the Imperial Magisterium and survive.

“Well,” said the taller of the two Ghosts, a man with close-cropped blond hair and pale green eyes. “Are we going to fight?” His emotions brushed against Kylon’s senses, fear and anger overlaid with iron discipline and self-control.

The smaller Ghost, the one in the shadow-cloak, said nothing. Kylon’s arcane senses could not penetrate that cloak, but he had a good idea of who was inside it anyway.

“You’re one of Decius Aberon’s sons,” said Kylon, “aren’t you?”

“Aye,” said the green-eyed man. “Are you here to kill us?”

“No,” said Kylon.

“Then why are you here?” said the man, lifting his sword.

“Corvalis,” said the shorter Ghost, and Kylon recognized the voice. The Ghost drew back her cowl and pulled off her mask, and Kylon found himself staring at the face of the woman who called herself Anna Callenius. “If he wanted us dead, he could have let Torius kill us.”

Without the cowl of the shadow-cloak, he could sense her emotions, and she knew that. Which meant that whatever the Ghost told him next, she wanted him to know that she was telling the truth.

Or she was an even better actress than he had guessed.

“So I take it,” said Corvalis Aberon, “that you’re not here to kill us?”

“No,” said Kylon. “Though I am curious why you were fighting Torius Aberon.”

“To kill him, of course,” said Corvalis.

“You weren’t going about it very well,” said Kylon. He looked at the Ghost. “Though when I saw the building catch fire, I should have known you would be near.”

Her lip twitched. “I only set fire to that warehouse in Marsis twice.”

“His ward against the fire depleted his strength,” said Kylon, pointing at the burning workshop. “If he had not fled, I would have killed him.”

“And now you will kill us, I assume?” said Corvalis.

“No,” said Kylon. He released some of his power. The freezing white mist around his sword blade vanished, and he slid the weapon into its scabbard. “The time has come for us to work together.”

The Ghost said nothing, but he felt the ripple in her emotional sense.

“Oh?” said Corvalis. “Work together to do what? Claim the armor for New Kyre?”

“To destroy it utterly,” said Kylon.

The Ghost’s blue eyes narrowed. “You said you would prefer to destroy the armor, but you would claim it for New Kyre if you saw no other course.”

“I have reconsidered,” said Kylon. “The glypharmor will destroy whoever purchases it.”

“Were you not paying attention during Mihaela’s demonstration?” said Corvalis.

“I saw everything that you did,” said Kylon. “But consider. If the Assembly of New Kyre claims the glypharmor, every other nation will turn against us. The glypharmor is too powerful for our foes to do otherwise. The Empire, Istarinmul, Anshan, and the free cities will put aside their traditional enmity to destroy us, lest we use the glypharmor to dominate the world.

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