Queen of Swords_The Banished Gods_Book One by L. A. McGinnis

Author:L. A. McGinnis [McGinnis, L. A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fool's Journey Press
Published: 2019-02-19T06:00:00+00:00

When she opened her eyes again, Mir’s white drop ceiling swam into focus before fading out again. Exhaustion still swam in her blood, heavy as iron, weighing her down until she thought it might pull her under. But the bright light he kept flashing into her eyes finally brought her back, until she shoved it away. “Can you please stop that?” Even to her, her voice sounded weary.

A warm, reassuring squeeze of her shoulder, and humor tinged his raspy chuckle. “Told you that’d do it.”

In return, she sighed. “Why do you always have to be such a dick?”

“Something about you brings it out of me, sweetheart. And if you ever disappear on me like that again… You’ll be lucky if all I do is kick your ass.” If she’d had enough energy, she might have smiled, the way he’d missed her and all.

“Enough.” Loki’s voice was so serious the whole room went silent. “What did Hel do to the sister?” Everybody looked to Mir, who shrugged, his eyes serious.

“Not entirely sure what this is. What it looks like… It seems like, the girl’s got some sort of darkness trapped inside of her. As if she brought part of the Underworld out with her. Not even sure that’s possible though. I’m going to run some tests.”

“Not only did she keep me prisoner down there, Hel put something inside of me. Is that what you’re saying?” Ava’s husky, deeper voice murmured right next to Morgane, as her cool, frail hand reached out and clasped Morgane’s.

They were stretched out on tables next to each other, and as their eyes met, Morgane saw silver lining her sister’s dark blue eyes, smudges of shadow against her gaunt, hollow face. The tears welling up in her own throat were quickly swallowed down. As were the mounting questions.

What was wrong with Ava? And Mom. Why, why had she sacrificed herself when they were all so close to escaping? Why had she thrown her life away?

Christ, this was like losing her all over again.

“I think Mir will need some time to answer that question properly, Ava. But I promise you, he’ll do everything he can to find the answers.”

Morgane blinked, Loki’s gentle, deep voice pulling her out of replaying what had happened down in the Underworld. Later. There would be time to mourn Mom later. Debate why she’d done it. For now? They had to figure out what was wrong with Ava. Right now, before Ava was dragged back down to the Underworld. Or worse.

Ava’s hand drifted over her stomach, hovered there. “It feels like I have something…heavy inside me.” Ava’s voice shook slightly. She turned to Mir hopefully. “Can you get it out?”

“I don’t even know what’s inside of you. So no, I can’t answer that question. Yet.” Mir’s eyes slid to Morgane’s, a touch of sympathy in them.

“Give him a little bit of time, Ava, he’s good at fixing things. Even mortal things like us.” Morgane shot her sister an encouraging look, then over to Loki, now involved in some deep discussion with Balder.

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