The Last Chronomancer by Ralynn Kimie

Author:Ralynn Kimie [Kimie, Ralynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Steely Co. Publishing
Published: 2023-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

12

The Thealey Massacre

Kou could hardly sleep.

Every time he did manage to fall asleep, he was woken suddenly by his own fear. The smallest foreign noise—it was like he was half asleep the entire time. Not fully awake, not fully asleep. There was an in-between, and he couldn’t get himself out of it.

Jace didn’t seem to sleep much either. They shared a room again. Kou was positive Jace didn’t want to let him out of his sight, and every time he glanced over at Jace, Jace was staring at the ceiling.

He was sure Jace knew he was awake because Kou kept shifting around on the hard mattress, but they never spoke. Things were off, but he trusted that Jace would tell him everything when he felt it was right. He wondered if it would be the right time soon. He lay on his bed, exhausted.

He missed the simplicity of life in Clay, and he missed Weylan. There was a piece of Kou that secretly hoped they’d reached a dead end in their mission, that they could just pack up and go home. But another part, the Chronomancer part, knew they had a duty to do their best to unravel the Grim Reaper’s hold on the Dragon realm. The more they’d traveled, the more signs indicated that the Reaper’s strength was growing. If he and Jace didn’t free the Dragons now, there might never be another chance. He couldn’t find it in himself to be angry at Jace for getting Rhiannon caught, the only vampire who might have ever agreed to help them. He still hadn’t told Jace the whole truth, and it was hypocritical of him to expect Jace to tell him everything when Kou wasn’t even doing that himself. Sometimes it was easier to hide the truth. There were some things that were too dangerous to be said out loud.

Still, when morning came, Kou realized he wanted to get Rhiannon out of her cage now more than ever. He wasn’t sure if this new momentum came from how she’d talked to him last night or from his midnight musings about saving the world. However, when Kou sat up to mention it to Jace, he realized that his friend had already left the room in the few moments Kou had dozed off. Kou wrinkled his nose and curled his hands into fists. After Kou had been attacked by an ancient vampire, Jace was acting like nothing happened. Kou wished he could do that. He wished he could just pretend that a vampire didn’t grab him and try to fly away with him. But clearly Jace didn’t want to talk about it—or to Kou at all—and if Jace didn’t want to give Kou any answers, he wasn’t going to.

Kou knew that much by now.

Kou stormed into Rubies & Speared Boar a few minutes later. He made a beeline towards where Jace was sitting at the bar. “Jace, we need to get her out of there. This secrecy thing is stupid,” Kou asserted

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