Merlin's Children (The Children and the Blood) by Megan Joel Peterson & Skye Malone

Author:Megan Joel Peterson & Skye Malone [Peterson, Megan Joel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Wildflower Isle
Published: 2013-11-25T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Seconds slid by, turning into irretrievable minutes that trickled away like water as she watched the world beyond the cafeteria window. Somewhere in the distance, sirens howled, rushing away from the building or toward it, she couldn’t tell, and past the window slats, a pair of teenagers met in the shadows of the crumbling train sheds to swap a small package for money. Her lungs barely worked, and neither did her body, both of them choked by a hot swarm of things she didn’t want to look at too deeply.

She wished Elias or Nathaniel were here. Even Cornelius would have been welcome in his way. It would’ve been nice to have someone else in the room, if only to give her the space to leave it while still keeping Cole under guard and Lily pacified. It was a stupid reason to want them back.

But it would have been nice all the same.

A shiver ran through her, distant and strangely anything but cold, and without even noticing, she suppressed the shaking. Once they got back to the wizards, everything would be easier. More focused, anyway. It was true there weren’t that many Merlin left, what with councilman Arthur and his allies having been killed in Croftsburg a week ago and the fact Gavin, Ermengarde and most of the other survivors had gone so far to ground, she didn’t have the foggiest idea how to find them anymore. But Katherine was still out there. The woman was the only wizard still living who was trustworthy anyway. She’d find the doctor, get Lily to safety, put Cole someplace he couldn’t do any harm, and then head across the country to the historians.

And through it all, she’d be moving. She just desperately wanted to be moving.

By the train sheds, one of the teenagers ambled off. The sirens died without a cop car to be seen, giving a brief moment for the ever-present susurrus of traffic to whisper through the room before new sirens rose all over again.

And time crept on, giving Jamison the historians and bringing her closer to having to watch everyone she cared about die.

She closed her eyes, keeping her breathing steady by force of willpower alone. It wouldn’t happen. She wouldn’t let it. She didn’t know how, but she wouldn’t let it. She wouldn’t lose her friends and she wouldn’t lose her sister. Not again.

Footsteps echoed in the hallway. Swallowing hard, she schooled her face back to emotionlessness and glanced over as the cafeteria door swung open.

“Good to go?” she asked as Bus walked in.

He nodded. Quickly, she slid from the table and turned, waiting for Lily and then fighting the sudden desire to hurt something when the girl looked to Cole before following.

“Got a car for you,” Bus said as they came closer. “Loaded it up with food and the like. Spider tells me you might be on the road a while, so I wanted to make sure the kid had enough to eat.”

He grinned at Lily, who hesitantly returned the smile.

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