The Elemental Trilogy Box Set by Toni Cox

Author:Toni Cox [Cox, Toni]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-22T07:00:00+00:00

She sat in the branches of the tree above her house, her feet dangling in the air. Rothea was inside, sitting by the window where she could see her. Maia had taken refuge in the tree after she went to see her father. Even now his words still rang in her ears.

“Do you understand the danger you put, not just your own life in, but the lives of Rothea and the people of Shadow Hall as well?” he had shouted, her mother’s hand resting calmly on his shoulder.

“Yes, Father.”

“You could have been killed. Is that what you want? Do you want to follow Riker into the next world?”

She had taken a sharp breath; even Jaik looked shocked at her father’s outburst.

“And what if we had needed you here?”

“Here?” she asked, now utterly furious. “So, I am allowed to fight here and put my life in danger, but I am not allowed to do it for the people of Thala Yll?”

Her father was quiet then for a moment, blood rising to his face, and her mother whispered to him. Jaik, leaning against a post in the room, tried hard to suppress a smile at his sister’s spirited reply.

“That is not the point, Maia,” he had finally answered. “You disobeyed a direct order.”

“I did not receive such an order,” she answered defiantly. “I left before it could be given.”

“Maia,” he said, a dangerous calm in his voice, “you have changed and I think we all know the cause of it. I do not like what I see and from now on I expect you to report directly to me. We have always given you free rein, but if you treat yourself and others with so little respect, then it is time for me to intervene. You are not to leave Shadow Hall unless ordered to do so while there are Vampyres in our land and while that … that Blaid is still out there. Orders have been given to capture him and kill him if necessary.”

“What?” she had asked, disbelieving.

“We received a bird from Stoneloft this morning that he killed twenty-four Elves. The city had been under attack by Vampyres and he infiltrated the city and killed our own people.”

“That cannot be true.”

“Wel,l it is, Maia, and from now on he will be treated as much of an enemy as the Vampyres. You might have been right about Kanarel, but you are wrong about Blaid. He is dangerous. Now, I want you to go home and stay there until you receive orders from me. I will not allow any further disobedience from you.”

She had been shocked by her father’s words about Blaid, but did not believe them. There had to be some other explanation for it, she was sure of it. She wished she knew where he was now and she wished she could contact him somehow to warn him about her father’s orders. Why could the people not see he was helping them? He was a Prime; he should be revered like her.

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