Summoning Shadows by Winter Pennington

Author:Winter Pennington
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Lesbian, Fiction
ISBN: 9781602826793
Publisher: Bold Strokes Books
Published: 2012-08-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

True to her word, Renata managed to procure a bath and water for me to bathe. The tub was brought up to my room and filled before the fireplace. Cuinn curled up at the foot of the bed, and neither Renata nor I bothered to usher him out of the room. Fata or no, he had been in my head. A little nudity didn’t seem as intimate as that.

A change of clothes was brought for me, and I was grateful to see that they were mine, though I imagined Renata had asked one of the Dracule to take the risk of returning to the Sotto to get them, I was grateful.

I sank into the tepid water and rested the back of my neck against the tub. I couldn’t remember the last time I had fed, but strangely, I wasn’t hungry and the pain that had nearly driven me mad had gone completely.

“How is everything at the Sotto?” I asked. “Was our clan attacked when Damokles attacked Bull Shoals and Ravenden?”

“Oddly not,” Renata said, coming to kneel beside my bath. The clear water was familiarly scented with rose.

Renata touched my shoulder and I dipped my head to fully saturate my hair. When I sat up, she set about scouring my hair with a thick liquid soap that smelled of milk and honey.

“Where’d they get that?” I asked as the unfamiliar scent tickled my nostrils.

“Queen Helamina,” she said, “there are those in her clan that venture more deeply into the human world than we do.”

“It seems all our clans function very differently.”

“It depends on the abilities within the clan.” Renata rinsed my hair with a small pitcher. “There are a few among the Rosso that have the ability to pass unseen, but if one vampire is able to leave the Sotto, the others would want the same freedom to do so. There are those in Queen Helamina’s realm that shroud themselves from the humans exceptionally well.”

“How is Augusten after the attack?” I asked.

“He’s here,” Renata said. “You’re welcome to ask him yourself later.”

“So Queen Helamina and King Augusten are both here?”

Renata offered a brief smile. “Yes, and we’ve sent word to as many clans as we can reach. Iliaria and Anatharic have managed to sway some of the Dracule into joining us.”

I traced Iliaria’s sigil at my wrist, which now branched, as Morina’s did, up to my elbow.

“She cares about you a lot, you know,” Renata said.

I gazed at my wrist and arm, finally allowing myself to take in the binding Iliaria had placed on me. Her mark appeared very similar to Morina’s now. Both had the same vine-like appearance and traveled up to my elbows, but there was one major difference and that was the sigil of their names tangled up in the base of the mark.

Iliaria had bound me to her as deeply as Morina had in an attempt to save my life. I knew she wouldn’t have done so if she didn’t care a great deal for me.

“I know,” I said, feeling quite moved in that moment.

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