There Will Come a Darkness by Katy Rose Pool

Author:Katy Rose Pool
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)

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ANTON

Anton whirled as Navarro’s dissonant esha crashed over him. Rage poured off the Paladin like smoke as he emerged from the passage below and stepped into the shadowed sanctum.

“Where is she?” he demanded, eyes scanning over smashed tiles and blackened reliquaries. “Where did she go?”

Anton took a breath and moved to block the exit. Beru could get out of the city if he could buy her just a little more time. He owed her that much.

“You don’t know what you’re doing,” Navarro said. “Move aside.”

“She’s innocent.”

“Innocent?” Navarro repeated. “You don’t know what she is, do you?”

Anton didn’t answer.

“That girl you call innocent is a creature of death,” Navarro said. “A revenant. Resurrected by her sister.”

It seemed impossible. Revenants were from stories, the frightening creatures that had once laid waste to the Kingdom of Herat under the command of the Necromancer King.

But then again, Beru and Ephyra had been searching for Eleazar’s Chalice, the artefact that had imbued the Necromancer King with enough power to create an army of the undead. Why would they need that, if what Navarro was saying wasn’t true?

Navarro glanced at Anton’s hand. “What is that?”

Anton’s grip tightened on the ticket that Beru had handed him just moments ago. He moved to tuck it away, but Navarro snatched it quicker than Anton could react.

“Tel Amot,” Navarro said, eyes scanning over it. Then, almost to himself, “Why is she going there?”

Anton dove for the ticket. Navarro knocked him to the ground without a trace of effort.

“Thank you for this,” Navarro said, tucking the ticket away.

“You said you weren’t going to hurt her. You said no harm would come to her.”

Navarro peered down at him. “Did you not hear what I said? She’s a revenant.”

“So what?” The words came out before Anton could stop them. “You’re going to kill her for what she is? For something she never chose?”

Navarro’s eyes flashed as he advanced. “You know nothing of what you speak.”

Anton scrambled to his feet, putting himself once again between Navarro and the exit.

“Move aside,” Navarro said. “Despite that stunt you pulled downstairs, I don’t want to hurt you.”

Anton stayed put.

Navarro stepped back. “If you won’t move,” he said, drawing his sword slowly from its sheath with a metallic scrape, “then I’ll make you.”

Sunlight glinted on the edge of the blade.

And then, through the fear that spiked his veins like ice, Anton felt it. The esha that had been haunting him since that morning in the marina. The one that had swept over him again when he was locked in the tower in the citadel. It was closer now than it had been then, almost palpable in the room. Navarro and the blade in his hand seemed to bleed into the background, as the esha reverberated around Anton, taut and charged like a sudden drop in air pressure.

He looked back at Navarro to find him staring, sword still gleaming between them, confusion shadowing over his face. For a moment, Anton thought that somehow Navarro felt the esha, too, but

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