These Vengeful Souls by Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas

Author:Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas [Tarun Shanker & Kelly Zekas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250183064
Publisher: Swoon Reads
Published: 2018-02-20T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“OW. OW. OW.”

Rose’s needle was apparently dipped in some kind of terrible fire-liquid. Every stitch stung, the pain clear and bright without any numbness or excitement from the fight left to stave it off.

“And this is what happens when you act recklessly,” Catherine continued. She was pacing Rose’s and my bedroom, what little length there was, her hair unbound and riotous, her tone as sharp as a schoolmarm’s, even as she endeavored not to wake the rest of the house.

“Look at poor Miss Chen. Now she will have to wait for that leg to heal until your powers come back in three days’ time. It will be extremely painful! Wounds like that could fester and—”

“Please discuss the pain and festering in another room,” Miss Chen groaned from her place on Rose’s bed. She and Miss Rao had already been administered to, as I was deemed both the least injured and the least deserving of nursing.

I closed my eyes, trying to summon the warmth and raise my power. Memories of my Society healing missions flashed through my head, reminding me of the confidence, the peacefulness, and the sheer invincibility I felt at the time. None of which I had now. Shivers ran through me, as if a window had been left open inside my gut, a cold draught rushing in.

I opened my eyes to find Miss Chen sighing. “Any hint of your powers returning?” I asked.

“Nothing.” Lines of tension feathered out from her mouth, held in a tight grimace. As she maneuvered to face me, her hands clenched the thin sheet, a wave of pain rolling over her body. “What about you?”

“I’m sorry,” I said for possibly the thousandth time. I bit down as Rose continued stitching my cut closed, the black thread slowly laddering up through my raw, red skin.

“I simply don’t understand what you were thinking!” Catherine was going to make a very good parent someday; she wielded the tone of disappointment perfectly, like a weapon.

“I was also there—” Miss Chen tried.

“I know an Evelyn plan when I see one,” Rose muttered.

“I’m sorry,” I said again, feeling faintly frustrated. Even though Captain Goode deliberately revealed his address, there was still a part of me that thought it a good plan. Was it a little … rash? Yes. I regretted my impetuousness, but I did not particularly enjoy this lecture, not when Captain Goode got lucky with the timing of our attack. I couldn’t imagine his plan was to keep all those people waiting there for days to ambush us.

“We did learn something new about the powers, though.…” I said.

“Yes—the only healer in the world is astonishingly irresponsible and selfish,” Catherine replied.

“And Mr. Adeoti will find something on Captain Goode’s glove.”

“Which was worth losing Mr. Jarsdel?” Catherine asked. “After all the hard work Rose and Mr. Kent did to persuade him to work with us?”

“I’m not one to call anyone selfish.” Mr. Kent was lounging against the doorway, his arms crossed lazily in front of him. “But it was not your best idea.

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