Knights of Souls and Shadows, Book 1 by Kristie Cook

Author:Kristie Cook [Cook, Kristie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ang'dora Productions, LLC

Chapter 15

Tongues of Tor’s dark power stretched away from him, licking at my own, calling it forth. Trying to anyway. My hold on it was tighter than ever, my beast growling in protest. She wanted free. She wanted to play and frolic with Tor’s. No way could I let that happen. Never again.

Tor let out a string of what I assumed to be profanity in his native tongue—the tone was definitely right. I’d slept three times since being here at the cottage, though I had no idea how many actual days and nights that equaled. The sky and lighting hardly ever changed. The colorful, dancing lights in the sky drifted away and returned, drifted and returned, but I didn’t know if that was any indication of another day passing. So in other words, I didn’t know how long we’d been at this, but enough that he was losing his patience.

“Why do you still hold back?” he demanded, frustration thick in his deep voice. “I know you remember what you can do. What you did at the Vault against your opponents.”

Of course, he knew that I remembered. I saw how those memories haunted me in my own reflection. I heard how raw my voice had become from waking up screaming over and over again. I noticed his gaze on my trembling hands for the hour or so it took to calm myself enough to eat, let alone train. Except he was partly wrong—it wasn’t just the Vault where I’d unleashed my true power.

“I know precisely what I can do,” I snarled. “And I will never do that for you or your father. I can never do such horrors again—unless it is against you. Against him.”

He cocked his head at this, the points of his ears twitching as those aqua eyes studied me. “Except you cannot, can you? Because you lack control. The only reason you killed your opponents and nobody in the stands is because you were deep in the Pits and the crowd was far above, out of reach. You are like your earthly bombs. You do not have the control to kill me or my father without wiping out innocent lives.”

I hated that he was right, but it was all the more reason to not use my power at all.

“I have other ways,” I said. “I’m well trained in the diverse arts of combat. I can wield three types of magic and am proficient with a variety of weapons.”

“And how have those helped you come to this place at this very moment?”

I suppressed a growl, frustrated that he was right once again. None of my powers and training thus far had helped me escape the demons, the Unseelie, or the Shadows. Of course, since arriving in Faery, I hadn’t fought as hard as I would have at home, considering I had no idea how to return to my own realm or whom to trust to help me with that once I gained my freedom. I still didn’t know the

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