Left for Undead by L. A. Banks

Author:L. A. Banks [Banks, L. A.]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Urban Fantasy
ISBN: 9780312943028
Publisher: Bill
Published: 0101-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 12

They hadn’t been in battle, weren’t directly engaged in a war, and yet here they were again trudging to Sir Rodney’s castle with the bloody and the wounded. Sasha was so disgusted she could spit. Shogun was passed out and being carried by Hunter and a Fae archer; the arrow wouldn’t kill him, but Amy’s panicked attempts to stop the bleeding might. Yet, who could have blamed the poor woman?

All of it had happened within the blink of an eye, when taut nerves and full-moon rapid reflexes had kicked in. Shogun got shot, broke the arrow off. Aghast, Amy covered the gushing wound with hands already bloodied from her previous kill. Now Sasha’s future brother and sister-in-law had to spend the night in a sidhe dungeon waiting on blood tests and surgeons. Plus Sasha and Hunter needed to get hosed down, too. Both of them were splattered with Shogun’s blood, and the short carry to the gates of the sidhe had left them drenched in it.

Sir Rodney met them at the gates with Garth and Queen Cerridwen. “Are you injured beyond Shogun?” Sir Rodney called out, rushing in closer.

“No,” Hunter shouted back, “but my grandfather must hurry! This man is in pain and going into shock. He knows the medicine of the wolf packs to deal with silver burn.”

“We’ve got a silver-shock antidote here,” Garth said, running alongside Shogun’s body as his men accepted it from Hunter. “Once we became allies, we retooled our infirmary.”

“Good looking out,” Hunter said, falling back. “But his fiancée also needs a bath. and quarantine in comfortable environs, even if it must be behind silver bars for a few hours.”

“Just until Silver Hawk gets here with Doc’s results,” Sasha said in a reassuring tone. “It’s a precaution for him now more than ever.”

Sasha waited until Amy nodded and then rushed away to catch up with Shogun while Garth’s men transferred him to a livery. Before Sasha crossed into the magick density there was something basic that had to be done. She had to communicate with her team.

Placing the cell call to her squad and the NAS, Sasha punched in the connection with bloodied fingers. The moment the call connected, she relayed everything to Doc in one long run-on sentence.

“We’re on it,” Doc replied quickly. “We’re sending Silver Hawk back your way with not only his medicine bag but some serum.”

“How bad is it, Doc?” Hunter said, speaking into the phone over Sasha’s shoulder.

“I won’t know for a coupla hours.” Doc let out a harried breath. “Step outside that magick citadel and call me back—I’ll have word then, all right?”

“You and the team lay low,” she said. “Be careful. I love you.”

Sasha looked up at Sir Rodney. “Sometimes this is just faster than a Fae missive, no offense.”

“None taken.”

She hated this and could tell Hunter did, too. Seeing both Amy and Shogun behind bars in separate cells wore on every fiber of Sasha’s being. But to the Fae’s credit, they’d transformed each cell into a modified bedchamber, replete with a privacy screen.

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