King Henry and the Three Little Trips (The King Henry Tapes) by Richard Raley

Author:Richard Raley [Raley, Richard]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2016-01-30T23:00:00+00:00

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Since the Lady had set their plan of action, Eva Reti’s coma had been medically induced to insure her physical body wouldn’t try to wake itself before her aura was elementally ready for what was to come. She had also been kept in almost complete darkness. The room came with an airlock to fight infectious diseases, which had instead been repurposed as a lightlock, the observation windows had been covered with blackout curtains, and even the machines keeping track of her vitals had their displays removed, data pumped digitally into another room with a bit of conjuration from one of the electromancers who ran IT for the entire Administration.

The only light inside that hospital room was a single candle, replaced like clockwork every four hours by Fines Samson, who was taking this attack on his pupil stoically, but with great personal anguish apparent in his soft face. He would have stayed in the dark room with Eva if Evelyn had allowed it, had even argued with her about it until the Lady came all the way down to shoo him out.

Shadeshifters are almost as bad as Artificers when it comes to grief. So mysterious and hidden until they’re hit so hard by emotions they can’t hide any longer, Evelyn thought as she entered the dark room for what she hoped was the last time.

Even with a candle by the bedside it was pitch dark in the majority of the room. Nothing but a tiny nimbus around the patient, the rest shadows and proper darkness, almost deep enough to imagine an anima concentration forming in one of the corners. A man-made cave, perhaps not as pure as they like it, but very close.

Evelyn brought with her supplies for the coming conjuration the Lady had designed. Eva wasn’t the only one who had spent the last two weeks preparing for the day. The Lady had sworn off any conjurations, conserving her own strength and awaiting the massive amount of anima pooling she would have to do today. Most likely already started, enough anima in her pores to make any Intra’s eyes pop out of their heads.

Evelyn on the other hand had practiced recreating the ceremony the Curator had used on Eva. Evelyn wasn’t sure who the Lady received the photographs of the circles and artifacts from, but she knew better than to ask. She studied them and had practiced making the circles with watercolor paint in her own living room nightly. A few nights ago she had upped the difficulty level by attempting the task in near darkness.

Samson had again wanted to be the one to recreate it all, putting forth decent points about being able to see in the dark, but the Lady had been firm that no other Shadeshifter should be in the room with them, that it could be dangerous.

You would think she was calling a violent ghost to life in some necromancer séance, not forcing a girl’s body to fight off a foreign anima invasion.

Evelyn put down her container of Slush on the bedside table next to the candle.

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