Soul of Cinder by Bree Barton
Author:Bree Barton [Barton, Bree]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780062447760
Google: _ZrcDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0062447742
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2021-01-12T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter 25
Disappeared
IN THE END, IT was shockingly easy.
âTell everyone what youâve seen here,â Quin told Tobin, as they left the library. The acrid reek of scorched piano filled the castle corridors: burnt wood, burnt ivory, burnt books. âI want all the Embers in the Grand Gallery within the half hour.â
Tobin nodded stiffly. Heâd said nothing since Quin ordered half a dozen Embers to douse the raging flames. The piano was ruined, of course, reduced to a pile of smoldering ash, as was a considerable portion of the Kaerâs library. It gave Quin a perverse satisfaction to know that the plays heâd devoured, not to mention the histories heâd once found comfort in, were gone. Vestiges of a life heâd rather not remember. A self heâd rather not remember.
âDo not defy me,â Quin said to Tobin, his voice low. âOr you will pay the price.â
âLiar.â
Maev accosted Quin as he strode into the Gallery. Tobin had gathered the Embers; he now sat among them at the low slab tables. They were silent, watchful, so different from the raucous horde Quin had met when he first returned to the Kaer, carousing around their makeshift bar.
Maev, however, was not seated. She stood in the center of the Gallery, fuming. Strands of thin white hair had come loose around her face.
âTell them,â she said, pointing at the Embers. âTell them how you lied.â
âI am not the one on trial.â
âI should never have let you come here. We fed you, treated you like one of ours.â She shook her head in disgust. âI swore on my motherâs grave that if I ever met a Killian face to faceââ
âYou will be silent.â He looked coldly out at the room. âThe Kaer is my home. The crown is my birthright. I am Quin, son of Clan Killian, the uncontested king of Glas Ddir.â
âWe donât want your bloody crown,â Maev spat. âItâs crowns weâre fighting against!â
âYou will be silent.â
With a flick of his fingers, a red flame appeared in Quinâs palm.
A chorus of gasps rippled through the room. It sent a bolt of lightning straight into his veins. How often he had wished for a captive audience, a crowd to gape and shiver at his performance.
He pooled all his attention into his fingersâand sent a sphere of crimson fire into the makeshift bar. Instantly it ignited. Flames licked the wood plank, spewing sparks onto the barrels below. The bottles heated up, spirits seething inside, a dozen paroxysms waiting to explode.
From the farthest table, he heard a whimper. He turned his head.
Brialli Mar.
He hadnât seen her in days. She was watching him intently, unsmiling, a small black dog tucked under her arm. It was not Brialli who had whimpered, he realized, but the pup.
For a moment, Quinâs love for Wulf and Beo knocked into him so fiercely his breath caught. They had been a comfort to him during his darkest days. His dogs had reminded him of his humanity, even when humanity at large seemed brutally bleak.
He swiftly cauterized the wound.
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