King of None (The Masks of Under Book 5) by Kathryn Ann Kingsley

Author:Kathryn Ann Kingsley [Kingsley, Kathryn Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

The plan was simple. It made sense. It would work.

Lydia wasn’t thrilled about it.

But it’d work.

They waited out the night until the sun slipped from its eclipse into full glow overhead. It seemed counterintuitive—trying to escape during the day—but Aon wouldn’t be able to call on the House of Blood to help him. The vampires would be trapped in the shadows. He still had plenty of power to hunt them down, but he would be missing one portion of his strength.

The plan was to split into three groups. The House of Flames and the House of Fate would leave in one group and the House of Words and Moons in the other. Mixing the fighters in with the rest would give everyone a better chance. Splitting most of the refugees into two groups would better the chances that one half would escape.

But the regents and the royals would split away as that third group. Aon would not be able to resist the chance to take them all down at once. They were a distraction to allow the others to escape.

Only then, when they had drawn Aon’s attention, would the others leave her and go. It was only then and only if it came down to it that Edu would agree to leave Lydia behind. She had very much appreciated the sentiment.

She also had no doubt that it would absolutely “come down to it.”

The pack of them—several hundred or so—would come out of the tunnels underneath the city, as far to the outskirts as they could get. Vjo, Edu, and Dtu knew of the mountain range that was a few dozen miles off into the desert, and it was in that direction they’d head. If anybody else was looking for shelter, it was that or the open sands. They would have headed there.

There was safety in numbers, even if it meant they were all clumped in one place.

Vjo knew the warlock would give chase before they made it too far out of the city, and that was where Lydia would come in. She was the safety net. Aon would focus on her. She could hold off Aon’s armies for a little while. She would lose eventually; she wasn’t an idiot. But if it got everyone out of the city and to relative safety—whatever it was worth, and even if it was temporary—it was worth it.

She was also the only person Aon wasn’t going to kill on sight, they figured.

There was one thing that was bothering her, though. “Vjo?” She looked over at the spider queen who was walking beside her as they made their way through the tunnels. She knew the way by heart, it seemed, and had no trouble leading the gaggle of people through the tight corridors as far out to the edge of the sprawling acropolis as possible.

“Yes?”

“I need to tell you something. I don’t want you telling anyone else. Not Evie, not Edu, nobody.”

“Of course.”

Somebody had to know. Somebody had to understand what Aon and the Ancients were after.

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