Shade of Darkness by D. N. Leo

Author:D. N. Leo [Leo, D.N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Narrative Land Publishing

Chapter 31

The hill of rock opposite the ice temple where the Scorpio key was held was as sacred as the hill the temple was on. She had never been up here before. Unlike the other hill, nothing could be built on this one because it was a solid piece of bare rock in the shape of a giant fist bursting out of the ground and reaching for the sky. To get up here, she’d had to climb with ropes. No one could come up here to join her without climbing or flying. She looked down, not at all enjoying the idea of a fall.

The shapeshifters she knew didn’t have the ability to fly. She had asked everyone to stay at the base of the rock. She knew what it looked like from the bottom, but from up here, the rock rose up to the sky and seemed to hover above the ground. It looked magnificent from this vantage point, but its majesty was dimmed a bit by the thought that there was no hope of anyone helping her if anything happened while she was up here. Choppers and machine guns might be of some help in the situation, but she and Amaraq had no such resources—unless Caedmon could pull something off.

Azriel had left another blood note in front of the Ethesus camp, asking to meet with her here. The dark angel claimed to have Caedmon. Given Caedmon had been unreachable, the only conclusion she could come up with was that he had been captured by Azriel. She had checked and double-checked that she had everything necessary with her to deal with this nasty angel, but she still got chills up her spine when she remembered his eyes on the Peak.

The image of Ben’s lifeless eyes flashed back to her then, making her heart pound with fear. The thought of Caedmon being killed just like Ben rattled her confidence, but she couldn’t afford to show fear now. Fear was weakness, and she was sure Azriel would pick up on it. She should have just used the coward’s approach and stabbed the voodoo doll to death. Then they wouldn’t have had to deal with the current situation. Knowing that just the thought of using that method was evidence of weakness, she shook the thought out of her head.

She braced her hand on the top of the cliff and hopped up to complete her climb. On the flat surface at the top of the rock, a short distance away, Azriel stood tall, smiling at her. On the ground next to him lay Caedmon, unconscious.

“Hello, Alyna. I didn’t lie about having him here for you, did I? It was brave of you to come up here by yourself.”

“If I tell you there are a bunch of missiles aimed at you right now, will you know what I mean?”

“Not really, but I figured there’d be some kind of weapons involved. However, it’s irrelevant. You are here because you’re worried about your friend here.” He gestured toward Caedmon.

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