Sentinel by S. J. West

Author:S. J. West
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Watchers Publishing
Published: 2017-04-01T06:00:00+00:00

I hear Shael gasp in shock, possibly horror and fear, as Elliana’s mouth opens and she begins to speak.

“Why have you brought me back, Princess?” she asks in a voice that sounds as if it’s traveling through a long wind tunnel.

I immediately snatch my hand off Elliana. Her mouth shuts and her eyes close, similar to how a child’s toy turns off when you flip a switch on its back.

“Sarah,” Shael says in a shaky whisper. “Did you just do that? Did you bring her back from the dead?”

“I don’t know. Maybe,” I admit as a vision of what happened when the shades attacked us in Destin flits through my mind. When I touched the shade that turned out to be my mother, she began to materialize right in front of my eyes. When we lost physical contact, she turned back into a shade and disappeared.

Shael narrows her eyes at me suspiciously and says, “What exactly does ‘maybe’ mean?”

I go on to explain what I was able to do to the shade in Destin, but I purposely neglect to tell Shael that the ghost was, in fact, my mother. I’m not exactly sure why I decide to withhold the information. It just doesn’t feel right to talk about my mom with Shael considering the fact my father chose to be with her instead of his own people. When I’m done, Shael looks justifiably frightened by my tale.

“You must never tell anyone here what you are able to do,” she vehemently orders me.

“Why?” I have to ask.

“They won’t understand what you are. They will take it as a bad omen and refuse to follow you.” Shael takes a step forward, grabbing both of my hands. “Promise me you won’t tell anyone you’re a re-animator.”

“A re-animator?” I ask, having never heard the term used before to describe a person. “Is that what I am? Are there other re-animators here in Alfheim?”

“If there are, they keep themselves hidden, as well they should.”

“Is reanimation a type of dark magic?”

“That’s what everyone assumes, but no one knows for sure. Most re-animators rarely have reason to use their gift. It’s a transient power that only lasts as long as the re-animator touches the dead subject.”

“So I won’t be able to bring something that’s dead back to life?”

“No. You’ll only be able to re-animate their body and pull on the tether it has to their soul long enough to get whatever information you desire. In a way, the power is almost useless.”

“No, it’s not!” I say excitedly. “Don’t you see? If I can reanimate the werewolf that tried to kill me, we might be able to get some answers!”

“I’m afraid that won’t work,” Shael says with a great deal of regret. “He was considered a traitor, and the werewolves deal with those who betray the pack quite viciously.”

“He was already dead,” I point out. “What else could they possibly do to him?”

“Eat the body,” Shael answers rather bluntly.

“You’ve got to be joking,” I say in dismay and, quite honestly, genuine disgust.

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