Binding Blood by Daniel De Lorne

Author:Daniel De Lorne
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Escape Publishing

VIII

After an eternity of falling down, Oberon ascended, rushing out of his body and into a new space… It wasn’t new at all. The muted grey and violet triggered his memories and fear, freezing him in place, locking him into this endless purgatory.

He couldn’t see anything — he was barely there himself — yet he spun, or at least he thought he spun, but then he was looking in more directions at once than should have been possible. Or would have been were he not on the astral and on the brink of death. Suddenly facing one way and then instantly the next, he searched, not caring how it was done, just that he could do it, that he could prepare for anything that snuck up on him.

Like a demon.

Wary that last time that woman had turned into a demon. Hadn’t there been two of them?

Olivier had drained him then as he had now, and he’d drifted and found himself lost. She’d called to him and then, when he’d returned to his body, all he’d known was that he could never die again.

Which is why he’d come to Aurelia and agreed to feed Olivier and act as his guardian.

No, he’d come for revenge because of what Olivier had done.

And had done again.

But it was different this time.

Did Olivier care that he’d drained him? Had he been wrong to give him his blood? Had Olivier’s remorse and sorrow all been for show?

No. He’d felt what Olivier had felt, that couldn’t be faked.

While he couldn’t hate him for causing this, he sure as hell didn’t want to stick around. But he had no way to get back. Last time… What had happened last time?

The realisation slammed into his head. Sinara had rescued him. Aurelia’s mother, guardian over them all. Dead. And so he was out where…

Where Xadrak ruled.

Alone.

His mind darted as he did, searching in the distance on all sides of himself for anyone. Should he travel? If he went up, would he die? If he went down, would he be lost? What was he going to do?

He couldn’t die, that was certain. He had to return. He was meant for something. Sinara had made sure of that, that’s why she’d sent him back. That’s why she’d protected him from Xadrak. She’d… Yes, that’s what she’d done. She’d shielded him while an army came for her. He saw it all around him again, the recollection summoning ghosts. The terror at being surrounded by evil shook him. She’d said it wasn’t time, that he was needed. She’d called him a key.

The key.

His heart seized, silencing the beating and stopping it from alerting others to his presence.

No, no, no. Not him. Not the thing they were looking for. Not the one they were going to use and destroy. He couldn’t die. Not like this. Not like that. He quaked. He looked at his hands and they quivered as well, their outline becoming fuzzy and then fading even more until he blended into the nothingness and reformed in sharp lines lit with violet light.

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