Moonless by Crystal Collier

Author:Crystal Collier [Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Raybourne Publishing
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

50

Troubled

Kiren slipped from his room, glancing cautiously either direction. He focused on Sarah’s door, straining his senses. Her soft snore drifted to his ears. He shifted his attention to Alexia’s room. Her mattress sighed against the bed ties as she tossed, her usual state of slumber before waking. He didn’t have long.

He padded down the stairs and around to the kitchen, pausing in the doorframe, out of sight. The cook removed her bread from the oven, yawned, and aimed for the back of the house, back to bed for an hour if her usual pattern held true.

He passed through the kitchen and out the door to the yard.

The dark silhouette rocked in the cold, a puff of white air billowing around him.

Kiren grinned and locked grips with the messenger. “Lester, what news have you for me?”

“Fire and brimstone, that’s what.” The runner shook his scraggly head. “That she-demon, she’s gone. Up and poof!”

His throat tightened. If Bellezza was free, the Soulless were merely a drop in the well of his new worries.

Lester pulled his hand free. “And were it not enough, there’s been a movement.”

Kiren straightened.

The runner rubbed his palms. “Them vultures been amassin’, all comin’ together in one place. Ain’t never seen so many.” He shifted from one foot to the other. “This could be what we been waitin’ fer.”

Kiren rested his hand on the hidden amulet below his coat. The Soulless had never unified, except on moonless nights. If they were crawling out from their hiding places before the lunar cycle, could he forego this opportunity?

He glanced back at the house. But it would mean leaving Alexia. That, or tearing her away from her world and placing her in even greater danger. Could he do that to her?

Lester gripped his shoulder. “We should be off.”

This chance would not come again. He groaned and nodded. “Go then. I shall join you before the next new moon.”

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