The Gauntlet Trials: Bayou Bishops Book 6 by Lucian Bane

Author:Lucian Bane [Bane, Lucian]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-17T18:30:00+00:00

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The Seer jolted the moment Maggie touched him, his sight seeming to explode with dark visions all around them. She nodded at him and stood.

“Order!” the Grand Oratrice called with another bang of the gavel.

“Grand Oratrice,” Seer said, keeping hold of Maggie’s hand as he hurried to the front with her. “Maggie is the wife of Spook and she has gifts similar to mine. I can testify personally that her gifts are powerful and accurate as she has used them on me. I would ask that the Auditors permit her to touch the boy and discern what she can.”

The Grand Oratrice whispered to the ladies on her left then right before nodding. “Do as you see fit Seer.”

Seer let go of Maggie’s hand and she went before the boy slowly reaching out with a shaking hand. One hand rested on the right side of his head then she brought the other on the left. Seer stepped back when the darkness he’d seen in the boy rose up all around him, pissed and swirling. Maggie let out a sob as she knelt before him and her hands moved to his face, feeling and tracing the way she’d done to him. Seeing and understanding everything that had been maddening shadows inside him. She wailed and reached a trembling hand behind her toward Samuel. He hurried to her and took hold of it, sucked into a vortex of pain and torture. He dropped to his knees, grabbing Maggie’s shoulder as he saw and understood the darkness and why the dice rolled Gray. There were no sins to confess because the boy was not the perpetrator, he was one of their victims, bound in and by their sins.

“Dear God,” he shot out, heaving as he saw the devastation. Then he saw the thing that cut him the deepest and yanked his hand then Maggie from the boy. He pulled her in his embrace as she screamed and sobbed with the trauma.

“SPOOK!” he yelled, needing him to get her as he stared at the statue still boy.

“What did you see?” Bishop demanded in a harsh whisper.

“Let The Seer speak,” the Grand Oratrice ordered, banging the gavel.

Samuel released Maggie to Spook and turned to the Auditors, fighting to catch his breath and spinning mind. “The boy is not one of theirs. He’s…a prisoner. And he doesn’t speak because…” Seer’s breaths turned ragged with rage as he eyed the boy. “He doesn’t speak because they caused him to be mute.”

Spook had left out with Maggie but her agonizing wails could still be heard in the now silent room full of sorrow and shock.

Seer found Bishop’s confounded gaze. “The Noctambule will surely pay for this.”

He nodded firmly. “They will.”

The gavel rang out again. “We’ll take a thirty-minute recess. When we return, The Bishop’s Twelve will roll the Fate Dice to determine who will care for this boy. Then we’ll conduct the scheduled Gauntlet business after. The Gardien will see to the boy’s immediate needs.”

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