Revealed: Necromancer's Blight: Book 2 by D. L. Harrison

Author:D. L. Harrison [Harrison, D. L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2017-10-02T22:00:00+00:00

It was dusk when we arrived at the park, and as the sun went down it got much cooler. We got off the El and walked toward the park, planning to bypass the conservatory when I got a shock.

A family of four was coming our way. The mother and father were in their mid to late thirties, and there was a young teenaged girl, who was holding the hand of her little brother who looked eight or nine.

The teenage girl looked up at me, and met my eyes. She smiled and I shook my head minutely and grimaced in warning when she opened her mouth to speak. I was sure she was feeling my necromancer magic, because I was feeling all of theirs. Not one of them had the taint though, they’d never used their power. There was no way I was letting them get slaughtered, not when they were avoiding the blight, and avoiding using their abilities.

I also felt guilty, because I was hiding it from Selena, she wouldn’t be able to feel a damned thing since they weren’t tainted. What should have happened, is the family would have been brought in, the girl and boy raised alongside the Blood children and then matched to a Blood when they grew up, and perhaps the parents would be matched to a compatible Blood couple already mated, so they could use their powers without it tainting them, but not have to break up a marriage.

That’s how it was supposed to work until the new race took over, until the Blood and the original Necromancer races slowly faded away as their bloodlines mixed, but I had no idea how to get that across. It was why the Blood hadn’t been given the ability to sense necromancy, only the blight’s taint. The Necromancers wouldn’t hide if there was a solution like that, and necromancers that had joined the blood would find and bring in others. No, the Blood just felt the taint, so that they would know to cleanse it.

Serena was my best friend and partner, I’d defend her with my life. I also knew she wouldn’t hesitate to kill this whole family if she knew what they were. Not because she was cold or heartless, she was the opposite of that, but because she’d been taught a lie from before she could walk. Maybe if she knew the whole truth she wouldn’t, but she didn’t. I still didn’t know what to do with it all. Worse, if it was found out I’d just let them go, I’d be called a traitor and hunted myself.

I suppressed a sigh of relief when they all ignored me, even if the teen did look a bit sulky about it. I’d had a flash of imagination, of the young woman growing up to be just like Macy after her family was slaughtered. It was the right thing to do, letting them go I mean.

I also wondered how many families like that were out there.

Serena asked, “Can you sense Shifters?”

I frowned, and shook my head.

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