Kitten and Allure by Amanda Cashure

Author:Amanda Cashure
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-18T16:00:00+00:00

I watch Seth and Kitten clamber over the boulders and into the trees. Pax is talking, and after a while the warriors around us kneel. But I can’t move my eyes from those trees; allowing myself to watch is the small concession that keeps the floodgates from opening. Even though I can’t actually see them from down here.

“Roarke,” Pax snaps.

All of the information that I wasn’t listening to here floods in.

Rose is leaving to hunt. Rynn and her sister are riding into town for supplies. If they split up, the townsfolk will likely amalgamate stories, and if anything gets retold, it will be that one lone Saber came through the area. Lone Sabers are a common enough sight. The blessing of twins. Those are our only keys, three all up because of course Jada has one.

That leaves Teegan, her StormSeed, and Rose’s FaunaSeed – Aria.

And I need to work on the spring.

“I’m on it,” I grumble, but only because my whole body is still so bloody tense that my throat muscles won’t relax enough to let my voice out.

Pax and Killian stalk off, tugging just lightly at my speed in their own struggle not to race after Shade.

Teegan points down the stream to the spot where the water widens and slips through Eydis’ barrier.

“Follow the perimeter,” she begins giving her team orders, but stops to check over her shoulder in the direction of my family in the trees. “But not that way,” she adds.

The women nod respectfully, then meet my gaze for confirmation.

My brothers and I have always been treated in two ways, respect or power play. Since Lithael came into power, the third option, fear, has become prominent. So I’m not surprised that the women look to me for confirmation. I am surprised that they feel eager for it, that they desire my reaction.

Not because of what my Seed is tugging to the surface of their consciousnesses, but because of what Kitten just did. Because we have a damn crazy mortal in our possession.

The strongest power play – played out by the weakest among us, and she didn’t even know she was doing it.

I nod to Teegan’s team, and two of them move off. They can follow the stream if they want. In any direction they want. I’ve already done that.

“Show me where this water doesn’t start from,” Teegan coos, taking lithe steps away from the cluster of logs arranged for sitting on and onto the path.

Pebbles, just smooth enough for Kitten to walk – or stumble – across barefoot trace the edge of the stream. Teegan has grace. Each of her steps, in her shiny deer-hide boots, is almost soundless. And she has the kind of hips that perch atop long legs without any ability to hide the swish and sway of her walk. Legs that are bare. Smooth. Not a scratch or a mark.

“She was dead when you got here?” Teegan asks, pointing to the blood on the boulder as we amble around a garden bed and

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