Zero Rising: Soldier of Light Chronicles Book 3 by Ireland Gill

Author:Ireland Gill [Gill, Ireland]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ireland Gill
Published: 2020-03-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve Every Rose Has a Thorn

“There’s just no way,” I said to Jaxon. “Clearly, it has to be a metaphor or something.”

I was still in shock about the whole “I killed my son” thing with Blane the day before. I wasn’t sure Blane was expecting me to react to his candor the way I had. I mean, I was grateful he was truthful, but his answer wasn’t anything near what I’d expected.

I can’t remember much about the rest of that day, only that I had a million questions bouncing around in my head and couldn’t pick one of them to ask. What would it have mattered anyway? I was only allowed one question per day.

I’d skipped throwing with Blane the next morning so I could clear my head and chew on what I’d just learned about him. I was sure he wasn’t a bad guy. I was sure that he would have been placed in the dark realm with Alysto if what he told me was true. There was way more to his story, and having only one question per day wasn’t going to cut it for me anymore. Maybe it wasn’t any of my business, I get that, but Blane was almost like a project for me those past few weeks. In a way, we both did each other favors by being who we were. He offered me a bit more protection by teaching me how to protect myself. And I guess I offered him some sort of outlet, human interaction. I’m not sure I’d call it friendship; it wasn’t that deep between us. Whatever the relationship was becoming, we both got something out of it.

It was after noon when Jaxon offered to take the pony for a wash and to fill the gas tank for me. He said it was his way of thanking me for letting him move in, (even though it was more of a command.) We decided it would be a good time to catch up on things after having been so busy for a few days, so I tagged along and put off “saving” with Hayden. (I was really just afraid to let anyone drive Aurora without my supervising.)

“It could be a metaphor...a sick one, but meaningful,” Jaxon offered. “Or maybe his son was sick, and he feels guilty about not being able to help him.”

Jaxon offered a great point there. Middle realm was where people went to condemn themselves. They were never put there by force. There’s no way it was murder.

“He’s a good guy,” I said. “I know that much. I mean, he can be a super dick most of the time, but his intentions seem right, you know?”

I didn’t want to tell Jaxon about the tracks in Blane’s arms. It was obvious what those were from, but I didn’t even know if that had any relation to why he had been in the Middle realm to begin with, so I never brought it up.

“Yeah, he seems okay.” He nodded. “I don’t know.

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