Rapture by Lauren Kate

Author:Lauren Kate
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

inner Patina, casting glances hungry as wolves’ directly at the place where the prey they sought were

hiding. But the Scale could not see the angels, the girl, and the transeternal safe inside.

“Where are they?” one of them snarled, his cloak tangling in a sea of blue wings as he pushed through

the crowd of his brethren. “They’re here somewhere.”

“Prepare to fly fast and hard to Avignon,” Dee whispered, standing stiffly as a Scale angel with a

birthmark splashed across his face leaned in near the limits of their Patina and sniffed like a pig

seeking slop.

Arriane’s wings were trembling and Luce knew she was thinking of what the Scale had done to her.

Luce reached for her friend’s hand.

“Roland, how about that mighty conflagration?” Daniel said through pursed lips.

“You got it.” Roland interlaced his fingers and furrowed his brow, then gave one hard glance at the

brown house. There was a great blast, like a detonating bomb, and the Foundation Library exploded.

Scale were sent shrieking into the Patina sky, their cloaks engulfed in fin-gerlike flames.

Roland waved his hand, and the hole where the library had stood became a volcano spewing flames

and lava rivers through the lawn. The oak tree caught fire.

Flames spread through its branches as if they were matches in a box. Luce was sweating and dizzy

from the heat searing through the Patina, but even as the Scale were blown back by repercussive shock

waves, the group inside Dee’s small Patina did not burn.

Dee shouted, “Let’s fly!” just as a tornado of hot, flame-laden air swirled through the yard,

swallowing a hundred Scale and lifting them into its blazing core, car-ouseling them across the lawn.

“Ready, Luce?” Daniel’s arms wrapped around her just as Roland’s wrapped tight around Dee. Smoke

ricocheted off the walls on the outside of the Patina, but Luce was having a hard time breathing

through her sore, bruised neck.

Then Daniel had lifted her off the ground. They flew straight up. Out of the corners of her eyes, Luce

saw Roland’s marbled wings on the right, Annabelle and Arriane on the left. All the angels’ wings

were beating so fast and hard that they wove a pure blinding brightness, straight up out of the fire and

into clear blue air.

But the Patina was still open. The Scale who could still fly had some sense that they were being

tricked, trapped. They tried to rise out of the blaze, but Roland sent another wave of flame washing

down onto them, thrusting them back into the burning earth, singeing off their crinkled skin until they

were skeletons with wings.

“Just another moment . . .” Dee’s fingertips and steady gaze manipulated the boundaries of the Patina.

Luce studied Dee, then the mess of burning Scale. She imagined the Patina cinching at the top like a

cloak around a neck, sealing the Scale inside, choking them out.

“All done,” Dee shouted as Roland took her higher through the air.

Luce looked down, beneath her and Daniel’s feet, as the ground sped away from them. She saw the

ugly fire blink, then shiver, and then disappear, swallowed into a smoking hidden elsewhere.

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