Tales of The Citadel 09 - Fire Dance by Viola Grace

Author:Viola Grace
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Sci-fi
Publisher: Devine Destinies
Published: 2012-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

The stone was steaming, smoking in the waning light. It was still glowing, but so was she.

Hahvi bent over and caught her breath. Her skin was still white hot, but it was gradually losing its heat as the stone under her gave up its heat.

There was no way she was going to be able to stand in the flier with this much heat coming off her skin. She stood, stretched and walked to the edge of the new plateau. The base of this plateau was bedrock. It was the sturdiest place left on the whole planet, so Hahvi was really hoping that the Bormaic enjoyed their new location.

Step by step, she made her way through the cooling rock until she reached the floor of the valley. With cool stone under her, her body changed its temperature back to normal. Hahvi looked up to where Aliora was waiting, and she waved for a pickup.

There was a glint in response, and soon, the flier was coming toward her.

She wavered as Aliora settled near her. Her legs did not want to walk, and her arms were leaden. It took all her effort to walk to the flier and even more to stand as they returned to the city.

Aliora kept looking at her with equal measures of fear and respect, but Hahvi was too exhausted to care.

The flier set down in the same place it had taken off from, and mentally, Hahvi groaned at the distance she would have to walk.

Aliora left the flier and whispered frantically to Rackon.

He strode forward and lifted Hahvi in his arms before she could do more than shuffle weakly to the edge of the flier.

“Rest and relax. We don’t have a medical facility, but we do have healers.”

She spoke slowly and carefully. “I think I will be fine. I am just tired.”

“I will feel better if we have a diagnostician examine you. Humour me?” He smiled sweetly, and she was lost.

If Hahvi was honest with herself, she was also exhausted, and if she didn’t have to walk, she would go anywhere he wanted to take her.

“The healers are all on alert with the upcoming move. You should be in and out in no time.” He was trying to comfort her, but all she wanted to do was remain still.

“Wonderful. I hope that the suit recorded what happened there, because I am unsure as to what the hell I was doing. All I know is that there is a plateau flat enough to take this whole city with a little bit of wiggle room, and I think I made it.”

He chuckled. “I am sure that the Citadel dispatchers are frantically analyzing the data stream as we speak.”

“Good. I am not doing that again.”

“Will you be able to divert the lava?”

“Of course, but I don’t have to melt rock to do that. I just have to make a diversion and hold it back. Much easier.” She yawned, and her stomach rumbled.

He didn’t say another word as they entered a building that had the medical tang of physician offices anywhere.

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