The Gathering Storm by Lucy Varna

Author:Lucy Varna [Varna, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bone Diggers Press
Published: 2018-01-26T05:00:00+00:00

Early Wednesday morning, Sigrid and George met in one of the workrooms set aside specifically for housing and testing the known remains of the Seven Sisters. Three specially designed boxes rested on the long island positioned in the middle of the room, each containing a different set of the Bones of the Just, procured from three different locations.

Pieces of the first skeleton had been hanging on a wall in the nightclub Bones, and were discovered during a battle between Daniella Nehring and her mother, Lilith Cæstus. The puzzle over how the remains of a Sister had ended up there had never been solved, but safe money was on Lilith having had something to do with it. Her secrets had died with her the day her youngest daughter had skewered her to a dance floor, so they would probably never know the whys.

Sigrid would’ve loved to have been there the day Lilith was killed. She and Lilith had had a couple of run ins over the centuries. The other Daughter had been vicious and cruel, and had been one of the few who could best Sigrid in a bout, fair or not.

Jerusha Mankiller and her now fiancé Drew Martin had discovered the second set of remains in Turkey during their hunt for Sanctuary, positively identified as the skeleton of Marnan, and had provided information on the whereabouts of a third set, the skeleton of Eleni, which had been retrieved from Boston.

George entered the room carrying a box identical to the three Sigrid was studying and set it on the table beside the others. He sat down on a tall stool next to the workspace crossing one wall, file folder in hand. His shoulders were relaxed under his lab coat and a shy smile graced his boyish expression. “I finally have the admixture analyses on the Bones of the Just. Sorry it took so long.”

The ethnicity test results, at last. Sigrid perched on a stool beside him. “No apologies are necessary. We’re all busy right now.”

“Yeah, well.” He glanced at the folder in his hand as if he’d forgotten he held it, then opened it. “Right. The results were exactly what we expected. All three show strong Near Eastern origins, nearly pure, as a matter of fact. And guess what? That fourth box there? It’s a near match in ethnicity to the other three.”

Sigrid straightened on her stool. “Another Sister?”

George shrugged. “Female, same mitochondrial DNA, same ethnic origins, and a remarkable similarity in bone structure from the cellular level out, so she probably grew up in the same environment. If she wasn’t a Sister, she was closely related to them.”

“Where did you find that?”

“It’s the remains Moira found in the Archives a while back. It didn’t hit me until I was running the admixture analyses on the Bones of the Just that these remains were very similar.”

Was it true, then? Had a Sister’s remains been stored here in Tellowee, sheltered from time and their enemies, right under the very noses of those searching for it? Excitement raced under Sigrid’s skin.

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