Alight (Legacy of Flames Book 1) by Emma L. Adams

Author:Emma L. Adams [Adams, Emma L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-31T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“You’re awake!” said Becks, running over to me. Will followed more slowly, casting a suspicious look at Astor. “You—you’re okay, aren’t you? I thought we’d come back and find you’d burned the house down.”

“No danger of that happening, don’t worry,” I said. “We need to move.”

“Not now,” said Will. “You passed out, and you shattered the glass of half the rooms in the house.”

“I did?” I’d heard the shattering, but this window was intact. Weird. Maybe I’d had enough self-preservation left to spare us, even with my dragon side threatening to escape.

“Yeah. Lie down.”

I shot him a warning look. What was the point in being a badass dragon shifter if I passed out every time I shifted? You’d think, given that my ancestors had been hunted from birth, that I’d have developed better survival mechanisms. That, or I hadn’t used my dragon form enough. It’s not like I had anywhere to practise without drawing a target on all of our heads.

Astor gave me an expectant look. My stomach knotted. I still didn’t entirely believe him when he’d said he’d decided to tail the assassins, at his own risk.

“Astor says he knows someone who can help us break into the prison.”

“What?” said Becks.

“We go to this event the League’s putting on,” I said. “It’s possible to sneak in there, but not the prison itself. Apparently. I’d say we go, learn as much as we can, and then plan from there. If it turns out illusions might work, or we need some form of identification to get in, there’s no better place. Besides, if they’re moving every prisoner in the city to the Stronghold, there might be more opportunities to sneak in while they’re preoccupied. We managed to distract them once before.”

“The Elites are different,” Astor cut in. “As I said before, they’re trained not to panic in the face of certain death. You won’t be able to pull the same stunt you did in the tunnel. They’ll fill you with bullet holes.”

“I’ve got a better idea,” said Will. “How about this dickhead actually explains what’s going on before we go to this mysterious event?”

“I didn’t get an invite, did I?” said Astor. “It might be anything. A new recruit’s initiation. A declaration of a state of emergency because of the stunt you three pulled at their prison. An execution—”

The air tightened, and my throat closed up. “No,” I said quietly. “Not—”

It was the only thing that might be worse than Cori being locked up underground. If they found out what she was, or even if not, they might kill her to make an example of her. They might do any number of things. And our plan to get there hinged on one unreliable assassin.

“Look, we can’t stay here anyway,” said Will. “It’s dark outside, which means the hunters won’t be as likely to spot us. Of course, the significant disadvantage is that every Unseelie faerie in the area is prowling around looking for blood.”

“We can’t afford to waste any more time.

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