Kindred (Young Ancients: Second Cycle Book 3) by P.S. Power

Author:P.S. Power [Power, P.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2016-03-31T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter eight

There was a really strange thing that happened after that. Tor wouldn’t go away. The good part was that the man didn’t seem to think that Dare was somehow tainted by being related to all of those evil Adversaries, but some misguided impulse made him think that his son needed him to be there for him. Emotionally. Oddly enough, he really didn’t. Not even a tiny bit.

That shocked him a little, since finding out that his mother was still alive and with the enemy really had bothered Dare, but the news of the day wasn’t all that important to him. They might be able to use it as a way to gain information and resources, but… Inside, he was fine.

It occurred to him, about twenty minutes later, as he settled into the restaurant next to the inn with Tor across the table from him that it might just be the other man that needed to talk about things. It even made some sense for it to be Dare that he did it with. After all, he’d been there for the whole thing. Finally, after placing an order with a very friendly Samantha, who had what seemed like a glittering pink box on her face, he looked at the other man and shook his head.

“I know that Debbie is your friend and that my mother is… Well, you get that one. We can’t trust them. I know that I want to, and that it’s a risk letting them go like we did, but short of killing them there wasn’t a lot that we could do at the time. We can’t assume that anything they told us is actually true. Not yet. I should have been reading them to see if they were being honest, but I mainly worked on the implanted devices they both had. How about you?”

There was a sad expression, but it didn’t last too long. It was mainly pity, of course. Dareg was the one being hit hard in the whole thing that day. Unless the women were both being truthful with them, then they well might be feeling a bit of extra stress too.

Tor finally spoke, his voice low, but relaxed.

“As near as I could tell they meant what they said. Debbie… She’s a lot less certain about things. I have a sense that she isn’t as deeply a part of the plans that are going on as Merry is. I didn’t get the specifics. Just enough that, if they were normal people, I’d have just trusted them. I take your meaning however. What do you think we should do?”

It was a brilliant thing to ask, since when you had a problem, the best person to ask for advice was the fourteen-year-old child. Not that he didn’t feel older than that. At least fifteen. That thought, as dour as it felt at first, actually told him a lot however. They needed, not him, but the people that actually dealt with important issues. The leaders and their people.

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