The Eternal Souls Season by Lisa Silverthorne

Author:Lisa Silverthorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Elusive Blue Fiction

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Azrael rendezvoused with Kesien, Muriel, and Anahera at the crossroads, the sunlight thin against the overcast sky. It always felt like autumn on earth where Heaven’s outermost paths crossed as the winds picked up and the clouds thickened, temperature cooling. Especially with the haunted woods ahead, barren of leaves, full of ghosts and shadows. Remnants of lives and possibilities lost in the Middling. Ruined in the Garden. And tortured along the wide, winding road toward Hell.

All because of Lucifer and his followers’ petty jealousies. The most powerful being in the Heavens—besides God—and he was jealous of the attention that God’s Chosen received.

Didn’t Jack understand that all these paths led to ruin? All three of them. If he’d gone farther than the Garden, they couldn’t help him. Probably couldn’t even get to him in time.

“We checked in the Garden, sir,” said Kesien. “He’s not there.”

Muriel shook her head. “Not that we’d expected him to be there. He hates that place.”

“We saw no sign of him along the road to Hell either,” said Anahera.

“I checked with the Scribe and he didn’t show up at the archive,” Kesien added. “The cherubim said they hadn’t seen him around any of the spires, the parks, or the meeting places.”

That didn’t bode well. Azrael’s gaze tracked toward the haunted woods.

“Kesien and I searched all through those woods,” said Muriel with a sigh. “He isn’t there either.”

Azrael felt that heaviness settle against his chest. There was only one place he could have gone. They all knew it, but no one wanted to say it.

The Middling. Jack had gone there to try and rescue Talia.

Berith warned him that if Jack knew Talia was there, he’d move Heaven and Hell to rescue her, not realizing all the wards and traps Lucifer had placed there. Hoping Jack would be that foolish.

“I think it’s obvious by now where he’s gone,” said Azrael with a sigh.

He stared down the pathways, wings fluttering in the breeze, hands on his hips. His Eternean armor glittered in the fading sunlight, wind blowing through his silver-black hair.

“The Middling,” said Kesien and Muriel in unison.

Azrael nodded his agreement. “Berith warned us that if Jack tried to rescue Talia, Lucifer would take him prisoner the same way he captured Talia. By blocking his abilities and rendering him helpless.”

“We’re going in after him, aren’t we?” Muriel asked, motioning toward the woods. “We can’t let him and Talia both fall into Lucifer’s hands or it’s all over.”

“Muriel’s right,” said Kesien, arms crossed against his Eternean breastplate. “Jack can’t fall into Lucifer’s hands. Otherwise, we lose everything. Creation, the Heavens—everything.”

Anahera held out Jack’s breastplate. “And without this, he has no protection against Lucifer’s returned powers.”

Then Azrael remembered Berith talking about that stone that Talia had given Jack. She’d said something about it providing Jack with a great deal of protection.

“He does have that protective stone Talia gave him,” said Azrael. “I hope it protects him.”

“Are we in agreement then?” Kesien asked, glancing around at the others. “We’re going into the Middling to find him and hopefully bring him back to Eolowen.

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