The Unveiled by Pepper McGraw

Author:Pepper McGraw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: PMG Publishing

CHAPTER 2

MORTAL SIDE OF THE VEILS, APPROACHING THE NORTHEASTERN SHIELD

Mitaru was born to be a Guardian of the Veil.

At the end of his thousand years of service, he’d gifted his life force to the Veil and had stepped into eternity, eyes wide open.

It was a sacrifice he’d been honored to make, but it had not ended as expected.

He should be nothing but memory now, a tiny speck of dust that had burned itself out for the Fae and all of Faerie.

Instead, he was still flesh and bone, living in exile, along with his Guardian unit, on the mortal side of the Veils.

He’d initially believed the Guardians of the Veil were being punished for failing in their sacred duty, but not all Guardians of the Veil had made it to the mortal side. Many were still safe in Faerie while an unknown number of innocent Fae who had been traveling in the mortal realm, were now trapped there.

Two months had passed since the Unveiling of the Fae and the freezing of the Veils and they had no more answers today than when they’d first been exiled.

Mitaru’s unit had been stationed that first month at the Western Veil, where Princess Astra had used the magic of Faerie to claim territory in the state of Kansas. By the time Mitaru and his unit left Kansas to travel east, the shield she had constructed around the territory had already expanded several times.

There was no telling how far it had progressed in the weeks since.

The northeastern shield, by contrast, had constructed itself almost immediately after the fall of the Eastern Veil, taking mere moments to claim all of the territories between Washington, D.C. and New York City in a vast display of power.

That shield was now frozen in place, an impenetrable barrier that had not expanded since.

More disturbing was the lack of communication or any sign of life from behind that barrier. No one had been seen emerging from it, nor had anyone been able to cross it. Though both mortals and Fae had gathered along the shield, none could see past it to what was happening inside.

The only clues they had were the videos broadcast live from the National Mall at the moment of the Fae’s unveiling, but all connectivity had been lost the moment the shield went up.

Those videos were the only record of what had happened that day at the Eastern Veil and they showed very little.

Guardians pouring through the Eastern Veil, landing in the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, then surrounding the Veil.

Mortal soldiers running toward them, shouting.

Chaos as mortals screamed and ran.

The horrifying sound of gunfire—a sound Mitaru had never heard before arriving in the mortal world two months before.

A brilliant flash of light that was starting to fade when a secondary explosion of light collided with it.

Then nothing.

The Fae speculated that the shield had formed in the wake of that explosion of light and that perhaps both had been caused by Princess Glory, though few had seen her wield power of that magnitude.

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