Strange Land (The Young Ancients Book 15) by P. S. Power

Author:P. S. Power
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Orange Cat Publishing
Published: 2014-11-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter seven

Sara really wanted to spend time with Tor, even in the middle of an emergency, but instead she held her face still when Tiera suggested that she rush directly off to Noram and start pestering the King about the situation. It wasn't the best use of her time, but Queens probably didn't have to consider things like that too often. Not even relatively good ones that were known not to think they'd invented the right to rule personally.

Thankfully Tim shook his head, earning a dark and rather brooding scowl from the tall, very thin, monarch.

"That's not going to happen. If anything, this whole situation shows that Sara should be set to working on the tertiary grouping endeavor as quickly as possible. If people are going to attack us, here, then we need to have another fallback ready."

The words sounded sensible, and Tor looked at his brother closely, then nodded, about ten seconds later. He was so clearly doing magic that Sara could feel it happening. It was just him reading Tim though, who felt smooth and almost unconcerned to her.

Not that she had any great skill at doing things like that. She could clear her mind though, and feel the world around her a little. Most people could, with practice. It was a useful skill for a spy, so had been part of her training.

It was their mother, Laurie, who sneered at the scene.

"You're just trying to protect Sara from danger. Need I remind you that she was the one that stepped in front of that attack aimed at you earlier? That hardly sounds like a woman that needs to be coddled. Then she made sure the rest of us didn't harm poor Lars here." Her mood and tone shifting instantly, the pretty woman looked at the man from Austra, her brown eyes shining a bit with unshed tears. "We'll find your people. It's just a matter of time."

Not that they'd find them alive. No one in the world, in either world, could promise that, could they? It made sense to kill hostages most of the time. You didn't get a ransom for them, but in this case that wasn't needed. Lars had to do what he did, and succeed, or they'd promised to kill his wife and daughter.

Really, what they needed to do was fake Tim's death. It might not buy time, but it would be better than doing nothing, wouldn't it? Just in case these horrible people had some sense of honor?

Sara took a deep breath, getting Tor and Ali to both look at her, and then, a second later, Trice to do the same. No one asked what she was thinking, so she finally went ahead anyway, hoping it wasn't too stupid to be allowed.

"I'll go and handle the matters on Earth. On this end, I think that we should smuggle Tim out, both to remove the potential of him being attacked again, and so that the people that want him dead will have a reason to think Lars was successful.

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