Stone Prince by Emma Alisyn

Author:Emma Alisyn [Alisyn, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hard Candies Publishing
Published: 2017-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

A guard showed up at her door the next evening, right as the sun set beneath the sky. She felt it; every gargoyle would feel it and begin to rise for the night, stumbling from their beds, reaching for coffee or whatever other stimulant of choice was needed.

She stared at the door, unmoving as it slid open to reveal a cold-eyed Sir Nikolau. Assessing his expression, she realized he would look much happier if he’d been ordered to escort her to her execution.

“How go the trials?” she asked. It would be the last day of the preliminaries, and soon the court would officially try each of the Mogrens. “Am I to be tried?”

The male stared at her. “Anyone who knows who you are has been sworn to secrecy. I’m escorting you to work.” He said the word as if it were a particularly foul lump of congealed vomit stuck in his throat.

“That makes no sense,” she said. “Geza must have ordered it.”

“You will address him as Highness or Prince or Lord.”

She crossed her arms. “Why? I’m dead, anyway.”

“Put your glamour back on and follow. If you try anything, you will feel the edge of my blade at your neck.”

After a moment of hesitation, she followed, the glamour slipping over her gargoyle form. “Is he going mad already?”

Niko growled.

Okay. “Does Bea know?”

He stopped, shoulders hunching, as he had to restrain himself from putting a fist through a wall.

“If it helps,” she continued softly, “I don’t think I would have done it. I was trying to talk myself out of it. Not Geza, of course, I would have slit his throat in a second. But, not the females and garlings.”

“You speak that way about a male who has shown you more mercy than you deserve.”

“Yes.” She considered the situation. “He really has gone mad, hasn’t he?”

Bea gave her a long look when Moghrenna entered. So, they had told her.

“Good evening, Rhina,” she said. “We need to start setting up the space tonight. It’s complicated by the fact that the trial is—” Bea stopped speaking.

Rhina barely suppressed her grimace. Working here would be intolerable if they were going to tiptoe around things like she was delicate.

“In the way,” she finished. “I get it.”

“No, I don’t want her near any exits,” Niko snapped. “Don’t you have some paperwork for her to do?”

Bea sighed and threw up her hands, looking at him as if they were picking up the thread of a previous argument. “Prince Geza said—”

“Prince Geza is not in charge of security.”

“Where is he?” Rhina asked.

They looked at her.

“If it becomes known certain procedures were not properly followed, fail-safes will be put into motion.”

Niko’s eyes narrowed, demeanor changing. He whirled, comm at his mouth as he snarled into the unit.

“There were no specific timelines,” Rhina said. “So, you have time to prepare. No one would yet know the procedure had failed.”

Bea sighed. “This is going to be interesting.”

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