Royal Fate by Vera Rivers

Author:Vera Rivers [Rivers, Vera]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-11-01T16:00:00+00:00

But after the first encounter with the runeshades, I learned to take the pepper in small doses every day, and I never ended up feeling as sick. Endora lined up daily sessions to do probes inside my head, making me down a thick, disgusting potion that only she knew before levitating me in her chambers and chanting in a spell language I didn’t know.

“He’s done a block on you,” she informed me after our second session, annoyance lacing her voice.

I dropped to the floor unceremoniously from my levitation pose and grunted. Endora strolled toward her kitchenette and put the kettle on, ignoring my scathing look as I glowered at her, picking myself off the floor.

“Who? What?” I muttered, standing and brushing debris off my sundress. “Agnan?”

“Yes, Agnan. Who else?”

“I don’t know. I don’t know what you’re doing when you have me up there,” I complained.

She eyed me scornfully. “I told you. I’m trying to get into your head and see what he’s told you about his plans for the future. But whatever is in your past has blanks from your time with him. He’s clever. He has firewalls up around the time you spent with him. I suppose he did it with all of you. I had the same problem with the captives we took.”

I’d forgotten about the prisoners they had taken in during the last attack.

“You tried it with them, too?” I asked, my mind whirling slowly.

“I thought it was just a resistance they were putting up, but I think it’s him. He’s worked you all over really well.”

I set myself down on Endora’s dilapidated corduroy couch, tucking my feet underneath my buttocks.

“What can you see?”

“Nothing! Aren’t you listening? There’s nothing about your time with him.”

I hesitated, my mind whirling. “What about before that?” I asked slowly. “What about my time in the orphanage?”

The kettle whistled, and Endora turned to make her tea.

“What good will that do us? It has nothing to do with Agnan.”

I pressed my lips together. “No…” I agreed. “It doesn’t, but it could tell me a bit about my life before…”

Endora scowled at me, pouring the piping hot water into a cracked mug. “The point of this isn’t a trip down memory lane for you, Mirielle. It’s giving us leverage on Agnan and the Order.”

“I know.” I stopped myself from asking anything else.

Endora ambled around the counter of the kitchenette and handed me the tea. I grimaced and stared at it, knowing that it was my daily runeshade concoction, but I didn’t argue as I swallowed my first sip, the water burning as it hit my windpipe. Endora stood back, waiting to catch the black puff when it jumped from my lips.

We stared at one another.

“Take another sip,” she drawled, her eyes widening.

I did as she instructed, my pulse quickening. I parted my lips in case I had somehow managed to swallow this round of darkness, but even so, there was no plume of ebony to escape from my lips.

“One more,” Endora urged me, excitement coloring her words now, her face almost even to mine.

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