The Necromancer's Dance by S.J. Himes

Author:S.J. Himes [Himes, S.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Maraya21, M/M Romance, LGBTQ+
Publisher: SJ Himes
Published: 2016-02-25T00:00:00+00:00

8

Making Alibis

“Angel?”

“Hmm?” Angel stared at the makeshift pyre, mind lost to memory and flame. The grass was wet beneath his ass, his pants soaked in a few places, but he’d been too close to his limit and sitting down and catching his breath, not to mention settling his careening emotions, had been the wisest thing he’d decided in ages.

“Why did I steal his body?” Simeon sat beside him, cross-legged and looking more than rumpled. His tux was stained, from the body and the grass and their swift escape from the morgue. The vampire was still visually arresting and beyond appealing, his hair falling in a dashing manner over his brow, his green eyes catching the light from the failing fire, glittering like tiny shards of glass.

“August deserved a proper send-off,” Angel muttered, eyes locked on the lowering flames. The fire, veil-fed, had quickly consumed August’s remains, and all traces of Angel’s casting gone with him. All that was left was a few stubborn pieces of blackened bone, but the mourning fire was steadily eating away at it. “And he wasn’t going to get it from the authorities. Least I could do for the man who taught me most of what I know. And I figured we’d already broken a dozen laws resurrecting him, so what was a little body theft added on top?”

Simeon huffed a laugh as if surprised Angel could find any humor in their situation, and Angel could see Simeon smiling at him out of the corner of his eye. “Every day I see some new layer to you, a ghra, and I find myself drawn in deeper each time.”

Simeon came closer until they sat hip to hip. Angel sighed, weary. While he was not tired in a magical sense, his connection to the veil still buzzing in the back of his mind and keeping him topped off, he was tired emotionally and mentally. His quiet life, while not exciting or full of affirming moments, had been all he knew for the last ten years. Now a vampire he’d never met before, and never heard of, was coming for him. His quiet and boring life was unraveling, revealing a new pattern in the thread that he wasn’t too pleased with—but there was no changing it.

He was raised during the pinnacle of the Blood Wars—he was incapable of backing down from a mortal threat. Old, old habits were battling with his desire to keep his life quiet and uncomplicated.

Angel dropped his head, resting it on Simeon’s shoulder. The Elder froze for a moment as if afraid Angel would change his mind and pull away, but the longer Angel stayed there, the more the vampire relaxed. Angel’s body heat seeped into Simeon, the vampire warming, sharing the heat between them.

The bones grayed to ash and crumpled apart, and the meager light cast off by the dying flames fell to darkness. Death magic consumed, the mourning pyre went out. Human bodies, even sorcerers’, had little in the way of death magic

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