True Shifter by Rains Christine

Author:Rains, Christine
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Urban Fantasy
Publisher: Christine Rains
Published: 2017-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Saskia and Lucky dragged Bear through the black void as Ametta led the way. They reemerged in the snowy backyard in Old Harbor. Thick flakes fluttered down from the sky and melted against their exposed skin.

“Get him into the Hummer. We’ll take him to the fire hall. We have first aid supplies.” Lucky didn’t miss a beat as he picked up Ametta. “Do you know how to wake her?”

“No.” Saskia’s stomach roiled. What if Bear didn’t recover? What if her sister was stuck like that forever? She had fucked this whole thing up. Her job had been to protect them all, and she failed.

Bear muttered something and then spat out a gob of blood. He turned his head to her. “Inupiat words… her duty is done.” He gasped for a breath. “Wipe… paste… from forehead.”

They exited the backyard and raced to the Hummer. Bear’s legs shook like strands of seaweed and with as much strength.

He would be fine. He’d get through this. He was a motherfucking god, wasn’t he?

“Okay, good. Try not to talk any more.” Lucky opened the backdoor and put Ametta inside along with the owl token before running to the rear and opening the hatch. “Let’s get him in here. Damn. I know we don’t have anti-venom, especially not for a King Cobra. Do you know any magic herbs or something?”

“King Cobra?” Was that what Azarius had been? Couldn’t those things take down elephants? “Oh shit. I don’t know. Nothing. The people of the north don’t have to deal with those things.”

Saskia and Lucky lifted Bear into the back. She climbed in with him. Lucky didn’t even take a second to close it before running to the front and hopping into the driver’s seat. It didn’t matter. Bear was burning up. The cold would be refreshing to him.

She held him against her as Lucky sped to the fire hall. A trip that was only a minute, but it seemed like an eternity. She’d been afraid for him with the sea hag, but this, it was too real. Too out of her control. What could she do against snake venom?

Lucky parked and rushed around to her. “Wake Mett and I’ll get him inside. We’re probably going to have to bleed him. I don’t know if anything else will work at this point… or if we were fast enough.”

Lifting a man bigger than him with practiced ease, Lucky hauled Bear in a fireman’s carry into the building. An old church, by the looks of it.

Saskia skidded as she rounded the Hummer and threw open the back door. She tugged Ametta to her, wiped off the fragrant paste, and worked the Inupiat words on her tongue. “Erkrarpok pissimayok.”

Ametta’s head dipped back as her eyes fluttered. She let out a small moan and raised a hand to rub her face. “What? Where are we? Did it work?”

“Yes, come on.” Saskia pulled on her sister’s arm and yanked her to her feet. “We’ve got the tokens. But there was a fight. Sedge… Bear is hurt.

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