Angel's Flight by Ella Summers

Author:Ella Summers [Summers, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Night Spark Media
Published: 2019-05-31T16:00:00+00:00

21

The Angel of Purgatory

Gold banisters and red carpets greeted me as I stepped through the front door of the Legion’s newest office. My office, the first and only on the Frontier. Purgatory was my town now. The Black Plains were mine. Nyx had given them to me. Now I just had to figure out what to do with them.

The Purgatory office was housed inside the largest of the former district lords’ ‘castles’. The Legion had converted the building for our use, but its original flavor—the air of an opulent country estate—remained.

The other district lords’ former residences were still being renovated. When the work was done, one of them would hold our training halls. Another would become a garage for the vehicles we drove out onto the Black Plains. A fourth would serve as our armory. It was a good thing there were underground tunnels that connected all the buildings because they were situated throughout Purgatory.

The spread-out design of this office was different than any other on Earth, but Purgatory wasn’t a typical place. It wasn’t a city located at the heart of civilization. And I wasn’t a typical angel.

I followed Nyx through the arched doorway of my new apartment. A private suite that filled an entire wing of the castle, it was the former sleeping quarters of the district lord who’d owned this building.

“What do you think?” Nyx asked me.

I rubbed the lush cream-and-gold curtains between my fingers. “I thought it would be bigger.”

Nyx’s blue eyes pulsed.

“I’m kidding,” I told her. “The room is so enormous I might need a map to keep me from getting lost.”

“I trust you won’t be so flippant when you address your soldiers at your introduction ceremony in half an hour.”

“Introduction? They all already know me.”

“That is beside the point.”

“What is the point?” I asked.

“Traditions must be upheld.”

“So, you want me to enter the room, declare I’m taking control over this territory, and then walk out?”

“Flying would be preferable to walking. It makes a statement.”

I snorted. “Yes, it will certainly make a statement when I crash into the wall and get tangled in the curtains.”

Impatience flashed in her eyes. “How is it you still have not learned to fly?”

“I can fly just fine,” I told her. “I just can’t land. Or navigate if there’s anything within ten feet of me.”

In my defense, my flying had improved a lot. If if hadn’t been for the Fever messing with my equilibrium—and the monster-trading conspiracy keeping me otherwise occupied—I might have mastered flight by now. Or at least mastered not crashing into things.

Nyx sighed. “Ok, you will stride into the room, wings out and spread wide. Make yourself as big as possible. You must own the room. The ceremony is being filmed live. The entire Legion will be watching. You need to show everyone that you own this town, territory, and everything in it. That’s the only way the other angels will respect you.”

I smiled at her. “I had no idea you cared so much about whether the other angels respected me.

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