Bloodline Prophecy: An Urban Fantasy Academy Novel (Bloodline Academy Book 7) by Chan Lan

Author:Chan, Lan [Chan, Lan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-28T00:00:00+00:00

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I would never get used to standing beside death and letting it slip gently away to the Sea of Souls. How Azrael did this was baffling. Every time I watched a child glide past, I had to fight the urge to swan dive in there and pull them out.

“Are you sure we should be doing this so soon?” Sophie asked.

She refused to get too close to the river. Not surprising considering she’d almost lost Max to it. “My part isn’t really all that taxing.”

She blew out a breath. “Yeah, tell me about it.”

We’d been trying the transmutation for hours now. Every time it resulted in the same outcome: Sophie being blown onto her ass, and my magic utterly consuming her. We were missing something. We had to be.

I lowered myself to the grass and stared into the river. The Sea of Souls wasn’t just an earthly construct. There were various shades of supernaturals in there as well. No matter how hard I looked, I would never see Percy in there.

How many more would I lose before this thing played out? Sophie came to sit beside me, though she faced away from the river. “Do you want to talk about it?”

I laid my head on her shoulder. “If I let the floodgates open, we’ll be here forever.”

“Doesn’t time work differently here anyway?”

I screwed up my face. “I think it works however we want it to work. Or however Azrael wants it to work.”

It had been a perfectly balanced system until I’d gone and messed it all up. It felt like all I was ever doing was messing things up these days. “Why did Lucifer let Percy attend to you in the first place?” she asked.

“He didn’t. Moros sent him when I disagreed with my other minders. Lucifer never noticed his presence, because technically, he wasn’t a demon.”

She pursed her lips. “What do you think made Percy different?”

“Besides the obvious?”

Pulling out Lucifer’s blade, I laid it flat on the grass in front of me. Sophie cringed. Pushing her aversion to the side, I traced the outline of the ruby that was now embedded into the hilt. It was cold to the touch. Not at all how Percy had been in life. He was a funny creature, but he didn’t deserve his fate. That’s what you got for trying to help someone. In this world, kindness seemed to equate to death.

The words were out of my mouth before I could stop them. “I’m going to have to kill two more people.”

I had tried to stuff that knowledge away as tightly as I could into the compartment in my mind. But a defeated voice kept whispering: please don’t let the supernatural be someone I know. The horror of my situation was reflected back at me in Sophie’s wide eyes. The corners of her lips creased. “I don’t know what to say.” She placed her arm around me. “I wish I could do it for you.”

My laugh startled us both. “Come off it, Soph. You’d never be able to hurt someone.

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