Darkness Reigns by Joseph Nassise

Author:Joseph Nassise [Nassise, Joseph]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harbinger Books
Published: 2018-12-18T06:00:00+00:00

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Cade waited until he was certain that Gabrielle was asleep, then eased his arm out from beneath her sleeping form and rose to his feet. He waited a moment, making sure that she didn't awaken when she felt his absence, and then quietly stepped to the fire and withdrew one of the burning logs. Holding it aloft like a torch, he slipped away through the ruins until he reached the fountain he'd noticed earlier.

He carefully stepped up on its edge and then looked down, watching as the dark water caught the light of the torch and cast his image across the surface. He watched his reflection waver in the water for a moment, considering whether or not to carry out his plans. He glanced back in the direction where Gabrielle was sleeping, hesitating, then steeled himself and decided that she'd be fine for the brief period he'd be gone. Without another thought he gave a sharp mental nudge to that spot deep in the depths of his mind that activated the Mirror's Road and stepped forward, vanishing from sight the moment the sole of his foot hit the surface of the water.

He reappeared half-a-second later, crashing through the reflective glass surface of a display case in the midst of the vault hidden several stories beneath the ground floor of what was left of the commandery. Thankfully, the torch remained lit; he hadn't been certain the flames would survive the jump through the Veil with it. He held it aloft, letting its light spill around him, illuminating the immediate area.

The room was massive, the vault stretching above and away from him for a good distance beyond the edge of his light. He remembered being surprised by the sheer size of the room the first time he'd been here and it was no different now. All about him stood tall display cases in neat rows, their glass surfaces reflecting the red and orange light of his torch back at him. Glass littered the floor at his feet, the remains of the case his entrance had shattered, but thankfully that was the only damage he could see.

The cases around him, he noted with a sigh of relief, were empty. Most of them stood with their locks disengaged and their doors open, the lack of damage to them suggesting that the keepers of the relics, the Custodes Veritatis, had been warned in advance and had enough time to remove the items from the reliquary before the enemy could get their hands on them.

Unless the enemy had access to the keys, a voice whispered in the back of his mind.

Cade did his best to ignore it.

He moved through the rows, remembering the first time he'd been granted access to the Reliquary. He'd been hot on the trail of the Council of Nine at the time, having just learned that the group's leader, Simon Logan, the Necromancer, was searching for the fabled Spear of Longinus. To help him with his investigation, then-Preceptor Michaels had not only

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