Treasure & Treason by Lisa Shearin

Author:Lisa Shearin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-62051-253-1
Publisher: NLA Digital, LLC

Chapter Twenty-Two

The remnants of black magic swirled with the oily smoke high into the morning sky.

My skin prickled and the hairs on the back of my arms and neck stood up as if I had been too close to a lightning strike. The sky was clear with no clouds.

I’d seen and personally experienced enough Khrynsani black magic attacks to know it when I saw it. This was Khrynsani work. I had no doubt.

How they had done it was something else entirely. The Wraith had been guarded day and night. No one and nothing had been allowed on board unless they and it had been thoroughly examined first.

This entire end of the waterfront was chaos.

I ran toward where the Wraith had been. I shielded myself and extended it to include Phaelan. I didn’t use a glamour. I needed these people to obey me without question. To do that, they needed to know who I was.

The buildings closest to the Wraith had been flattened by the concussion from the blast, and others were pocked with smoking, blackened holes where the debris had hit as if shot from a cannon. They were mostly wood. If one of those buildings caught fire, the entire waterfront could go up. If that happened, the city could be next. Perhaps that was what the arsonists had planned. Their primary target was the Wraith; Regor going up in flames would be a welcome bonus.

It was the middle of the day, so the waterfront was mostly deserted. The curious onlookers might have been awakened from their beds, but we quickly put them to work operating manual pumps to get water from the harbor, using hoses to spray down any structure that may have caught fire, or have been hit by debris. Phaelan had been seen by my side, and only a few had tossed a questioning glance at me before they started taking orders from him as well. I imagine Phaelan had had plenty of experience putting out fires caused by flying ship debris.

None of the crew who had been on the Wraith at the time of the blast needed a healer.

There had been no survivors.

“Vaporized.” Imala was shaking with rage. “Instantly vaporized. Every man and woman on board. They were my people, my agents.”

She had arrived on the scene within minutes. I wasn’t the only one not getting much sleep.

She was covered in soot from head to toe. She looked as if she had personally searched the wreckage for each and every one of her missing agents. They were dead, blown up with the Wraith, but that hadn’t stopped Imala from searching.

Slightly less than half of the crew had been sleeping onboard, including the captain. It’d been a last-minute decision. We didn’t know how long we’d be gone, so the captain had ordered those with families to spend their last night in Regor with them.

For those on the ship, it had been their last night alive.

“They destroyed the Wraith to keep you from going to Aquas,” Imala was saying.

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