Rout of the Dem-Shyr (The Ascendant Series) by Raine Thomas

Author:Raine Thomas
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: FICTION / Romance / Science Fiction
Publisher: Iambe Books, LLC
Published: 2014-07-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

“If so many of you were wrongly convicted, why haven’t you addressed this with the Vawn as a group?” Ty asked.

Orran snorted as he swallowed his last bite of jerky. “Ya really are a freshy if yer askin’ that question.”

“I think we’ve all established that I’m a ‘freshy,’” Ty said tersely. “I wouldn’t be asking otherwise.”

“Get yer head outta yer arse, Orran,” Barto declared when Orran glared and leaned in Ty’s direction. “He could kill ya where ya sit, ya daft idiot. It’s what he’s trained for.”

“Then maybe he wasn’t influenced,” Orran asserted, crossing his arms over his chest. “Maybe he killed her because—”

Ty got to his feet. Orran stopped talking. His throat worked as he swallowed whatever else he’d been about to say.

“Sit back down, lad,” Barto said, waving Ty back to his seat. “As ya can tell, Orran here ain’t all that bright. Surprised that mouth of his ain’t gotten him killed yet, truth be told.”

Ty sat back down. He looked pointedly at Barto.

“The reason no one has gone ta the Vawn is that we can’t,” Barto explained. “There are protections in place against it. Once a convict is dropped off in the Dark Lands, they can’t ever find their way out again.”

Barto’s explanation tugged at Ty’s memory. He had learned about banishment early in his Mynder studies. The safeguards Barto mentioned were meant to protect the megais from possible invasion by Outcasts. A number of the inhabitants of the Dane megai were responsible for supporting those defenses. He wasn’t entirely sure what the protections entailed, but he recalled there being a mix of mental and physical deterrents.

When he’d had all of his abilities intact, he might have been able to find a way through those protections. But now, without even the ability to read minds, he knew he’d have no more success than any other Outcast.

In the back of his mind, he’d harbored the hope of at least making his way back to his family in the Dane megai. No matter what had happened, he knew his mother would at least listen to him. She might have been able to help him come up with a plan to prove his innocence and avenge Kyr.

Now, he knew he was truly on his own.

Shaking off the thought, he asked, “If the protections are so effective, how are people still communicating with the palace?”

Barto turned his dark gaze to Hope. “I think we need ta have a conversation, female. Ya seem ta have lost all yer damn sense.”

“She didn’t tell me anything,” Ty lied. He was tired of Barto’s threats, which he suspected the guy would follow through on based on Hope’s terrified expression. “I lived in the palace. We heard things.”

Hope sent him a grateful look before she turned her focus to the piece of jerky she held.

“Ah,” Barto said, nodding as though he’d already come to that conclusion. “Well, then, ya’ve confirmed what many in the Dark Lands believe. There’s a direct connection ‘tween this shitehole and the Vawn palace.

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