Memory by Skye Malone

Author:Skye Malone [Malone, Skye]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wildflower Isle
Published: 2019-03-14T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Logan

Satellites were probably the only things that knew this place existed.

I climbed from the car, scanning the rolling, scrub-brush hills around us. A few miles beyond, the enforcers reported that a mansion waited. I couldn’t see a trace of it yet. Some kind of defense mechanism surrounded it, though thankfully the enforcers had spotted it before we had come too close. They said it was an archaic form of magic—something from the very old days of the ruanir, something that’d been meant to hide us from the Beast.

It shouldn’t have been here. No one had made anything like that in centuries as far as I knew. Moreover, for a defense like that to still be working didn’t make sense. Ari was traveling with the Beast. There was a good chance she was here, which meant that creature was too. So either the Beast had made it past the defense unscathed, managed not to alert anyone to its presence, and now lurked somewhere inside, or else whoever ran this place had let it past their defenses—in which case why have the barrier at all? Or, third possibility, it’d taken off when it picked up on that odd shield-thing, and thus it was out here with us waiting for her return.

Which, of course, was the worst option. Without Ari in my grasp, I had no leverage over that thing.

I studied the blue sky, finding nothing. Distance from Ari caused the Beast pain, though, and we were several miles from the house. Most likely that counted as being too far from her, given how the guy at the motel claimed the monster had been practically stuck to her like glue. So then, the Beast must have made it past the barrier, which meant maybe the defense wasn’t designed to keep it out at all.

The possibilities made my head hurt, and they weren’t the only thing. There was obviously more going on here than the judges had deigned to tell me. I’d known they viewed me as expendable—a babysitter whose only job was to get the enforcers close to Ari—but this… this was something else entirely.

Who the hell were these people?

I ran my thumb over the fake class ring on my finger, its red stone warm from the magical energy trapped inside. It seemed likely that the defenses would pick up on us when we passed through them. Whether or not the Beast had gotten around the barrier, logic dictated that I should err on the side of caution. So I would send the enforcers in ahead of me and watch what happened. After all, even if the Judiciary was so shortsighted that it saw me as expendable, those snakes were infinitely more so.

Hans walked up beside me. “Surveillance reports only one person has emerged from the house this entire time,” he said. “Windows are reflectively coated, however, and there appears to have been some kind of thermal obfuscation installed throughout the building to make it difficult to isolate heat signatures. There could be more people inside the house.

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