Realms by Kit Bladegrave

Author:Kit Bladegrave [Bladegrave, Kit]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-05-26T05:00:00+00:00

13

Mori

So much for plans.

“Have you three completely lost your minds?” Lucy yelled, not much later.

“That’s what I said,” Craig grumbled until Kate elbowed him in the gut. “What?”

“You said you were fine with this plan,” Kate shot back. “That’s why we’re telling Mama and everyone else about it. You can’t just suddenly change your mind again.”

“I can do what I want, love,” he said, holding her tightly in his arms. “I said it before, and I’ll say it again, I do not agree with this plan, but I did not say I wouldn’t go along with it,” he added quickly. “I swear with anyone else, it would never work.”

“You saying I’m special?” she teased.

His lips thinned. “Yeah, let’s call it that.”

He kissed her, and the argument was over, for the moment at least.

“We have to get them out,” I insisted. “The longer Baladon has them in his grasp, the more likely he’ll use them. Please, Lucy, we need your help with this.”

She rubbed her forehead furiously as a stream of curses slipped from her lips.

“What exactly do you need?” Danielle jumped in.

“We need an exact layout of the camp,” I told her. “Where the cages are, how many guard them, what the tree line looks like.”

She glanced behind her at the door to the hall. “Four scouts should be on the return trip. Once they’re here, I’ll send them to you, and you can ask them. I have not been to the main camp in many weeks, and it’s probably changed.”

She left the hall to go wait for the scouts, leaving us with Hank, the other pack leaders, Luca, Nora, Keanu, Bear, Phoebe, and the others who had turned into commanders during this long war. All had appeared eager enough to hear out our first plan, but now that we were starting to get into what we wanted to do, I saw the fear in their eyes. I understood that fear all too well. What happened if this plan went south and they wound up imprisoned by Baladon instead? Or worse, he caught us all and killed us? They had every right to be afraid. Being kept in a cage was the worst fate, watching your family, your friends killed slowly and painfully. It was happening to those he had captive now. There was no other reason for him to hold them unless he was draining them of their life and whatever magic was left in their bodies. I was fairly certain we’d wounded him returning him here, and if that was so, then the prisoners in the cages had less time than we might hope.

“We can’t wait days to make this attack,” I spoke up suddenly just as Danielle returned to the hall.

“What do you mean?” Forrest asked.

“I mean Baladon is using those prisoners already, taking what he can from them. The longer we wait, the less we’ll be able to save. We have to move as soon as the scouts return with their report.”

“Will it weaken him, taking our people back?” Luca growled, gripping the sword at his hip.

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