Proven by H. M. Clarke

Author:H. M. Clarke [Clarke, H. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-09T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Damn the woman. I leave her alone for five minutes and she nearly goes and gets herself killed. If Vannik hadn’t been here…

This one thought kept circling around in Dagan’s shut off mind. This thought was one he did not want Kathryn feeling. He watched Kathryn as she turned and walked back into the room, watched as she disappeared from view. He then felt eyes upon him.

Vannik’s ice blue eyes were staring at him. Hard.

“Are you alright Dagan?”

The question surprised him and it must have shown on his face as Vannik continued though in a more offhand fashion.

“She’s fine. I think it would take more than a Menfau mage to take her down. You need to give her some credit. I heard her ask the blonde one for help, and when he and the dispel acted, she was on the Menfau and questioning him quicker than any skilled Magister.”

“I’m not training her to be a Magister, Vannik.” Dagan scowled back at the doorway again.

“I didn’t say you were.”

“What is Bron doing?” Dagan asked to pull the conversation away from Kathryn. That was not a subject he wanted to discuss with Vannik or anyone.

“He’s downstairs paying the establishment to look the other way and to cover the cost of a new door. He’s going to want you to pay him back. Just warning you.”

Dagan grinned. “I’ll put in a req to the Tribunal to reimburse him. He might get his money in a year or so.”

“Yeah. I gathered as much.”

“Would you both mind giving me a hand getting him back to the keep for questioning?” Dagan asked nodding his head in the direction of the room. “I want to have someone with experience to help back up these new Constables.”

“Sure, though Bron will want your word that this work will go towards his sentence remission.”

“That’s a given Vannik. What about you? Don’t you want the same assurance?”

The big man shrugged. “It’s no skin off my nose if you do or don’t. A rogue Menfau is a bad thing to have, it’s my duty as a citizen to help.”

Dagan nodded. It was the response he had expected. Even with his background, the man always had a good code of ethics. His eyes then slipped again to the doorway and his thoughts were drawn back to Kathryn.

The Link. His experience with it was not what he expected. Sure, he had read about it, seen it firsthand among the Blackwatch he knew, but knowing about it is not the same as experiencing it yourself. The raw unguarded emotion, the sheer crippling agony as his gut clenched as the first wave of fear and terror hit him… his stomach still hurt. And Kathryn just seemed to shake off the feeling like it was rain, even as he watched. Maybe it was her years of recruit training that helped her get over it that quickly. Maybe. Either way, he could not let Kathryn know about his overreaction to her emotions over the Link. He did not want to be diminished in her eyes.

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