Rod of the Heart: A Monster Girl Harem Fantasy (Celestine Chronicles Book 2) by Cebelius -

Author:Cebelius - [-, Cebelius]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-27T22:00:00+00:00

17

Sub-Cel

Laina's eyes were drooping by the time the group made it to the ante-chamber that led from the crypts into Sub-Cel. She'd been awake all day, and a lot had happened. She wasn't accustomed to losing sleep, and her body was telling her it was time to lay down.

Yeah right. Like I'm gonna get to sleep any time soon.

She scrubbed her forearm across her face and blinked hard, rolling her eyes in her sockets as she looked around.

Mila and Yuri were looking up at a small flame that seemed to hang in the air, burning on nothing as it sat under a brightly glowing crystal that jutted from the ceiling of the otherwise bare stone room.

"Well, that answers that question," Yuri said. "There was a traitor in the city, someone who opened the door for the zone beasts."

"It was Volai."

The Kolenkos turned toward Boss, who shrugged and glanced away as he said, "I threatened her with Cecaelia. Her response was to do a deal with the Twilight Zone. Protection from the powers in exchange for the city, and me."

His expression was pained, and Laina wanted to reach out to him, but before she could Marcus gave a heavy shrug and said, "Doesn't matter now. Move."

Mila waved her staff at the tiny flame hovering under the crystal, and it winked out. The crystal's inner light began to fade, and the group walked out the hole in the wall and into Sub-Cel.

The place they found themselves in was cavernous; so much so that the light from Mila's staff illuminated neither the ceiling, nor the walls to either side for more than twenty feet. Every step Laina took echoed loudly in the vast space, and she glanced around sheepishly as she noticed that everyone else had either boots or sandals.

Figures I would be the one to give us away. At least I'm not shod.

She'd been shod at a few points in her life, but rarely had she traveled often enough or on hard enough roads to make it worthwhile. It had been on her list of things to do, but she hadn't gotten around to it yet. Now she wasn't sure when she'd be able to, what with Florence burning and the riots. If what the others had told her about it not being safe for her to go out on her own was true, she'd just have to hope that Ross could bring a smith into the keep to do the job.

"Ookay ... slight change here in the order of march," Yuri was saying. "Marcus will stay up front, but at this point I want Laina to take your usual position on his right side, Boss. I will stay on the left. Euryale stays in the rear, and we will keep you, Shy and Mila in the middle. Everyone got it?"

"You want me up front?" Laina asked, brow furrowing as she moved to stand next to Marcus, glancing around uneasily.

"You cannot exactly swing that ax of yours from the middle," Yuri said with a grin.

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