The Keeper's Vow: A Chosen Novel (The Keepers Book 3) by Meg Anne

Author:Meg Anne [Anne, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Words That Sparkle
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 20

Now that Effie had discovered how to tap her power, it was much easier the second time. There was no need for her to picture a door opening within her mind. It was as Lucian had promised, all she had to do was breathe and envision her lungs expanding with power. Her Guardian gifts came eagerly, crackling within her like unformed bolts of lightning.

“There’s something I still don’t understand,” she murmured, reveling in the feel of power surging through her veins.

“Just one thing?” Kael asked with a playful lift of his brow.

Effie shot him a look. “Okay, lots of things, but just one thing in particular at this exact moment. Better?”

Kael flashed her his dimples. “Much.”

Effie rolled her eyes and turned her attention back to Lucian, who managed to successfully hide his amusement behind a look of polite inquiry.

“What would you like to know?”

“You told me once that the Triumvirates’ runes help contain their power. If a Guardian’s power is the same thing, shouldn’t I have runes, too?”

“What makes you think you don’t?”

Effie held out her clearly unmarked arms, looking from them back to the Guardians. “Wouldn’t I like . . . feel them or something?”

Lucian gave her one of his enigmatic smiles. “What do you remember of the transformation?”

Her brows dipped as she thought back. “Not much, really. The sense of floating and then you telling me to fill the vessel—I’m guessing my body was the literal vessel.”

Lucian gestured to himself and then each of the other Guardians in turn. “Our physical forms are a manifestation of how we remember ourselves before the change.”

“So I don’t really look like this anymore?” Effie asked with a frown as she looked down at her body.

“You do, because that is the form that you chose,” Nord interjected.

“I’m sorry, was that supposed to be an explanation?” Effie asked, her voice deceptively sweet.

Lucian was still laughing when he wrapped his arm around her shoulder. “What do Guardians do, Effie?”

She blinked up at him, feeling like she was back in school and had just found out there was a test she’d forgotten to study for. “Uh . . . guard?”

Kael folded in two, his laughter coming in snorts. “She’s not wrong,” he said.

Effie crossed her arms. “You know, when you guys referred to me as your little sister, I didn’t realize that meant I had actually acquired a bunch of annoying older brothers.” Despite the peevish cast of her voice, the thought actually warmed her. It was nice to have a family in more than name.

Lucian tugged on the end of one of her curls. “You better not be referring to me.”

She raised a brow. “You may not be brotherly, but you are certainly annoying.”

“As long as we have that sorted,” he replied with a wink that had her stomach turning to jelly.

“I wasn’t trying to be vague,” Nord said, once he managed to stop laughing. “Nor was Lucian, believe it or not.”

“That’s a first.”

Nord gave her an indulgent smile. “I think you’re confusing us with our alter egos.

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