Blood Stones: An Uncanny Kingdom Urban Fantasy (The Dark Lakes Series Book 2) by M.V. Stott & David Bussell

Author:M.V. Stott & David Bussell [Stott, M.V.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Genre Reader
Published: 2017-07-26T18:30:00+00:00

As I drove to the coven, I knew I might be about to attempt something absurd. I knew I was taking a risk. I knew that just because Chloe said one thing, didn’t mean it was true. The strange, magical world I found myself living in could be a duplicitous so-and-so, but I had to try, didn’t I? Had to hope.

One way or another, I was going to figure this thing out. My first port of all was the coven, where I expected to find Eva. I knew talking to her was most likely a waste of time—after all, she’d already made her position on Chloe’s apparent resurrection quite clear—but I was prepared to chisel away at her some more. Eva wasn’t home though, which lead me to Plan B.

The library.

Maybe there was something among all of those books that could help me. As I stepped into the room and cast my eyes across the jumble of anonymous, identical-looking tomes, my heart took a cliff dive. This was a fool’s errand, in more ways than one. How on earth was I going to find anything useful among all that knowledge when I had no idea where to look or what I was even looking for?

‘It’s probably in this book here,’ came a familiar voice. I turned to see the fox, sporting, as always, its Roman helmet. It pointed its battle-axe at a large tome discarded in a far corner.

‘You didn’t say your catchphrase,’ I said.

‘My what?’

‘You know,’ I shook a fist at the roof, “All hail the saviour!” You always say that. It’s your thing.’

The fox stepped from foot to foot and scratched at its head. ‘I do?’

‘Is there a reason you’re here?’

‘Yes, help! I help. Helped you with that stone, didn’t I?’

‘I thought I’d seen you.’

‘Gave you a little taste. Made you feel strong, yes?’

I closed my eyes and remembered that feeling. That amazing, terrifying feeling.

‘You sleeping?’ asked the fox.

‘Not enough, no.’ I opened my eyes again and strode across the room. I picked up the heavy volume the fox had indicated. ‘How do you know this is the book I need?’

The fox shrugged. ‘I see things, I know things. That’s me.’

I lugged the book over to the gnarled desk and dropped it down heavily. It gave off a mildew kind of odour as I spread it open.

‘So, what spell or incantation will I need?’

The pages of the book whipped past of their own accord before settling on a spell.

‘Okay, that was a bit not normal.’

‘That’s the spell. Can save her. Bring her back.’

I looked down into the fox’s eager eyes.

‘Why, exactly, would you be helping me?’

‘I am the fox. From the Dark Lakes. I help you.’

‘I’m not going to accept your redheaded mistress’s demand to take up any throne, you know. Especially not a throne made of skulls that will turn me into some sort of super-powered hellion.’

‘You say that now, say something different later, yes.’

‘Nope. I’m a good person. In the main.’

The fox tutted as it picked at the blade of its axe.

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