The Diamond Sphinx by Marie Andreas

Author:Marie Andreas [Andreas, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-04-07T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

Covey tilted her head, and then shook it. “Not that I can tell. His body is bringing me close to berserker, so my senses are extremely up right now. But he was lying here for a while before he was finally killed.”

Padraig leaned closer to the body. “Someone knew of the tie Cirocco had placed between him and Alric, and they were torturing Cirocco to get the hedge down.”

“As good a reason as any to keep it up then,” Alric said as he came through the hedge, looking no worse for his adventure into being spelled. Lorcan, Foxy, and even Amara followed.

I did a double take at that, she hadn’t been there a moment ago. I guessed that goddesses could move fast if they needed to “What did the paper say?”

Padraig let go of his spell over the body and tried to unfold the crumpled paper. It took a while. “He was hanging on to this with all of his might.” Finally he gave up and held it to Alric. “It says for you, and won’t open no matter how hard I try.”

Alric had been more than his share of annoying lately, but I was disturbed at how easily he’d been taken over. And knocked out twice. I wasn’t sure if he should be opening anything from anyone at this point. Of course, before I could try and talk some logic into his hard elven head, he’d ripped open the note. Then flipped it over, said a few soft swear words, and flipped it back.

“It’s from Cirocco all right, but it just says ‘run’. And even that didn’t appear at first.”

Lorcan leaned over but pulled back when Alric went to hand the paper to him. “Better you keep a hand on it, my boy. It’s spelled, and a lot of power went into it. Do you have another one of the faery bags?”

“One left.” Alric shook his head and didn’t make a move for his pocket. “But do we need to save it? I think I can remember this message.” His hand shook as a jolt arced from the paper to his skin. “Damn it, it’s changing. ‘You stupid elf, get yourself and your people out of here.’ Seriously? It even sounds like Cirocco in my head.”

I looked down at the body. I’d done jobs for Cirocco, Alric being one of them, but never liked the man. That might change if he actually died trying to help us. It was debatable that was what was going on, but I had hope.

“I hate to agree with such a vile person,” Amara said. “But I do think you should leave sooner than later.”

Padraig nodded. “And I think we can safely assume that whoever replaced Largen is aware that we know she was replaced and she was involved with killing Cirocco. We need to get horses and leave by nightfall.”

“Couldn’t we leave before dark?” I wasn’t a huge fan of horseback travel, nor traveling at night.

Alric pulled out his last faery bag,

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