(eng) Pam Uphoff - Wine of The Gods 23 by Dark Side of the Moon

Author:Dark Side of the Moon [Moon, Dark Side of the]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Jade danced the prince out to the terrace. The man was in his forties, and looked it. Unusual in a person with that much glow, but then the whole royal family glowed, even the ones who'd learned how to shield leaked a bit. Elrich didn't appear to know anything about shields, either to keep his thoughts in or other people's thoughts out.

Shields. Heliotrope raised her mental shields, and edged out the doors to watch Jade leading the prince down a sweep of steps to the garden. Not that he was unwilling. He was a man, and Jade a beautiful woman . . . leading him off into the twilight shadows. No one else on the terrace noticed them.

Heliotrope swallowed and strode after them. Shook her head at a woozy desire to look away, to not notice . . . she tightened her shields and wrapped an unnoticeable spell around herself. She trotted quickly across the terrace and down the path.

For a moment she thought she lost them, then a man's laughter from the left had her slipping that direction. Yes, there they were. Stopping for a kiss . . .

Jade broke off to frown, slit eyed over his shoulder.

Prince Elrich followed her gaze and shrugged. "No one there, and who cares?"

Heliotrope walked closer, pulling power. "You should care. This is Jade. She's a witch, wanted for her part in Prince Rebo's assassination."

Jade laughed. "Go away little girl, or I'll kill you too."

Elrich's eyes jerked back to her. "What?"

She chuckled. "Don't worry, Sweetie, you'll love every moment of it."

Heliotrope concentrated power into a fireball in her hand. "Prince Elrich, You should run away, right now."

"Now see here!" The prince swiveled his head between them, took a step away from Jade.

Heliotrope threw the fireball, a stun spell, sleep, a push . . .

Went flying, hit the ground hard and pushed herself back to her feet. A whiff of smoke from a tree marked the final destination of her fireball, and Jade must have bounced the other spells as well. She wasn't the least bit stunned, sleepy or pushed.

"Oh you pathetic little creature. Is that how you sisters fight among yourselves, no power to speak of? Little girl fights?" Her left hand barely waved.

Heliotrope yipped as heat blasted straight through her shield, barely deflected, burning the length of her skirt. Heliotrope rolled, both to put out any sparks and make herself a harder target. Pulled power and put it into her shields. Physical and mental . . . if she put up an energy shield she'd have no power or concentration to throw spells herself.

Something hit her shield, and echoed agony through her head. Pain spell, the reverse is . . . the pain faded and she tried to force herself to her feet. Got knocked flat and rolled.

Jade was laughing, power glowing in both hands. An intricate spell . . . death, disruption of synapses . . . And something else as well. Heliotrope felt like she was mired in a nightmare, slow, slow, too slow, she was going to die .

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