Archangel Chronicles 9 - A Candle in the Sun by LaBarthe L. J

Author:LaBarthe L. J. [J., LaBarthe L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

AHIJAH STOOD some distance away from the cluster of temporary buildings that circled the building site. Transom had certainly done quite a lot in the time since Tzadkiel’s contact had photographed the area: foundations were laid, building materials were piled neatly around, and there were signs warning people to be careful and wear hard hats. None of that seemed to matter now, as the law enforcement personnel moved like a well-oiled machine, swiftly and efficiently removing people and arresting them, carrying out boxes and boxes of documents and computer hard drives.

Hiwa stood beside him. Ahijah didn’t need to look at his brother to know that Hiwa was concentrating on hiding himself. He could guess why—by using a trick taught to them when they were teenagers, Hiwa was making himself appear unremarkable, someone not to be noticed or looked at twice. The presence of so many police were no doubt making him nervous, and using the spell that they’d been taught by Uriel so many millennia ago would allow him to remain and watch without being apprehended. It was that same spell, Ahijah thought idly, that he himself had used to hide his tracks when he’d taken his people into Brazil and hidden them in their little village.

“Are you that certain you’d be in trouble?” Ahijah asked, although he suspected he already knew the answer.

Hiwa snorted. “You know what I do with my life, Ahi, of course I’m certain. I hear there’s a reward for information leading to my arrest in the Interpol offices in Russia and the eastern Bloc.”

Ahijah sighed. “Don’t tell Mama.”

“As if.” Hiwa snorted again. “I’m not an idiot.”

Ahijah let that slide and jerked his chin in the direction of the buildings, where FBI officers, identifiable by the large “F B I” emblazoned across the back of their jackets, were carrying large boxes of documents. “What do you think they’ll find?”

“A lot of horrors,” Hiwa said. “I bet, once they go through this and the lawyers go through it and the press gets wind of it, there’ll be a universal cry of no mercy for Transom. I also bet that the families of those who died at Transom’s hands will be approached by some lawyer offering to launch a class action.”

“Uncle Tzad might help there,” Ahijah said.

Hiwa shrugged. “I don’t know. I don’t think about lawyers.”

Ahijah barked a laugh and then coughed, trying to cover up the sound. “How you shock me.”

“Shut up.” A moment later, Hiwa spoke, and his voice was low. “So it looks like we don’t have to use ourselves as bait to get close enough to gut these fuckers.”

Ahijah grunted. “I’m not sure how I feel about that, you know. On the one hand, can you imagine how much trouble we’d be in if we got caught? But on the other, at least we don’t have to get caught. I’d hate for that to have backfired and be made to watch them operate on you so you were a demon-monster-Nephilim hybrid.”

Hiwa gently nudged his shoulder.

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