Soul Harvest: A Post-Apocalyptic Fantasy Harem (Dread Knight Book 2) by Sarah Hawke

Author:Sarah Hawke [Hawke, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jade Fantasy
Published: 2024-03-29T00:00:00+00:00

Present Day

“Still nothing out there as far as I can tell,” I said as I returned to Vess with Kithani’s glowing warmace in hand. The daylight spell she had cast upon it was still going, and I’d done my best to search the nearby area and ensure there weren’t more dark elves hiding in the vicinity.

“Thank the Archons for small mercies,” Vess said. She was still sitting cross-legged on the ground with the deva’s unconscious head in her lap. “She still hasn’t moved. I have no idea how long it will take for the poison to work through her system.”

“Hopefully quicker than it would through ours,” I said. “Otherwise we might have to carry her somewhere to hide.”

I put the back of my hand against the deva’s silver forehead. She wasn’t cold or clammy, but I had no concept of how much that mattered since she also wasn’t human. I was surprised the poison had worked on her at all—as far as I knew, demons were immune to most toxins. Her transformation into deva had apparently been thorough enough to change that.

“Sure you don’t want to turn around yet?” Vess asked with a weary smile.

“The Nareeshi will eventually send someone to check on their missing soldiers,” I said. “If we fall back, they’ll just end up on alert and try to hunt us down. Our best bet is to move forward quickly before they realize that anyone else is down here.”

“And if there are a hundred more of them waiting for us up ahead?”

I grimaced. “Well, with that teleportation spell you used in the battle, you could get us out of trouble in no time. I thought you said before that you had to rely on your ring for that kind of magic.”

“That wasn’t teleportation,” Vess said. “It was…well, I suppose you could call it a very short range version. More like an astral hop than true teleportation.”

“Is the difference that profound?” I asked.

“Enormous, both in power and in danger. The Spellbinders mastered true teleportation, but they didn’t share it with—”

“Oh!” Kithani gasped unexpectedly. Her eyes shot open as she looked around. “What—?”

“It’s all right,” I soothed, putting a calming hand on her shoulder. “You’re safe.”

The blue radiance instantly returned to the deva’s eyes as she wildly looked around to take in her surroundings. Apparently the poison had worked, just not for very long. And she didn’t even seem groggy afterward.

“Aodar’s light,” she said, shooting upright and spreading her wings behind her when she saw the dead Nareeshi and the pile of ashes that had once been a cambion. “I’m so sorry! I…I don’t know what happened!”

“You were poisoned, kitten,” Vess said, scooting back when one of Kithani’s wings tickled her nose. “Might be worth making yourself some armor the next time you’re at a forge.”

Frowning, the deva looked down at the smear of gold-flecked blood on her side. The wound had mostly healed over thanks to my own magic, but she still cast another restorative spell upon it nonetheless.

“I don’t understand,” Kithani said.

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