The Sovereign's Slaves (Narrow Gate Book 3) by Janean Worth

Author:Janean Worth
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Author's Art
Published: 2015-12-14T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

The Enforcers and the one remaining enslaved tracken were hot on their trail. Kara had spotted them through the trees several times from her vantage point high atop Gallant’s back. And they had seen her too. Their shouts of triumph had attested to that.

The Enforcers did not look too much the worse for their encounter with the Fidgets, but Kara had only moments to wonder at the strangeness of this before the chase began in earnest. The Enforcer’s tracken had found the animal trail that Zandra and Razer had led them to, and even now the Enforcers were using it to their best advantage, urging their horses into a gallop along the well-worn surface.

The heavy thumping of hoof beats behind them was like a drum sounded in battle, driving them on ahead in haste.

Kara had no time to do more than hang on to Gallant’s reins and try to guide him as best she could as he followed Zandra and Razer, crashing along the animal trail at a full gallop. Mathew clung on the saddle behind her, and she could feel the frantic pounding of his heart through the thin shirt at her back as he hugged her tightly to keep his seat.

Zander and Razer led them with some speed over the ground, but, already, Kara could tell that it would not be enough to outrun the Enforcers.

The shouts of the Enforcers became clearer as they drew nearer, and Kara could now make out some of their words. And the howl of triumph that their tracken gave was enough to raise the hair on the back of her neck.

“Stop!” one of the Enforcers shouted.

“Run them down,” another shouted. “They’re on Gabert’s horse, and the animal is tiring.”

“Kill the two tracken, they’ve been freed of their harnesses,” a third Enforcer shouted.

Kara shuddered.

She couldn’t let them kill Zandra and Razer.

“Mathew, can you use your father’s Old Tech like you did before?” Kara said, laboring to be heard over the pounding of Gallant’s hooves.

“I can, but if I do, it will not be fully powered when we enter the Gate. The last time I used it on the Enforcers, it used all of the power the Old Tech contained. The sun is almost gone, there is no time to get its energy back,” Mathew gasped behind her. “We would be defenseless.”

“We have only a short distance to the edge of the forest,” Kara said. “Perhaps we can make it inside the Gate and find some place to hide within GateWide until we can enter the House?”

“Where would we hide, Kara?” Mathew asked. “There is nowhere in GateWide that is safe from the Sovereign or his Enforcers.”

Kara knew he was right. But she also knew that they had to do something. There was no other choice.

“Gallant is tiring, Mathew. We have to try,” Kara told him, her heart pounding with fear inside her chest. The fast pace that the tracken had set was hard for the horse to maintain. Foam flecked his neck, but he showed no signs of slowing.

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