The Lure of Fools: The Age of the Infinite Omnibus by Jason James King

Author:Jason James King [King, Jason James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Immortal Works
Published: 2019-08-20T06:00:00+00:00

Maely touched her right ear. She’d been deafened by the thunder but could suddenly hear again. Had Kairah healed her?

“No more, Jenoc!” Kairah shouted as she strode toward her brother, and although dressed only in a short shift, she had the poise and presence of a queen.

Jenoc looked shocked, and then his brow drew down and his amethyst eyes hardened. “Are you going to fight me, Sister?”

“If I must,” she said.

“You would side with these humans?” he spat. “Even after what they did to our family?”

Kairah stopped a short distance in front of Jenoc. “It was not these humans, Jenoc.”

“That does not matter!” he shouted back. “They are all the same! Parasites that leech off the land and everything in it. They destroyed our civilization and stole our treasures! They must be removed!” Then the Allosian man faltered, head bowing and both of his hands flying up to grip each side of his head.

“You are sick, Jenoc,” Kairah said in a softer tone. “Moriora has injured you.”

“No,” Jenoc snarled, his eyes still shut tight against whatever was tearing at him.

Maely inched closer, thumbing her ring and preparing to call out another command in order to give Kairah a chance to strike. Sure, she has no problem with compulsion when it helps her! Would the woman attack her brother? The Allosian woman had waited so long to intervene. Was that because she didn’t want to hurt him? Or was it because she was afraid of him? No, she couldn’t count on Kairah. She would need to take care of Jenoc herself.

The pain afflicting Jenoc appeared to subside, and he let go of his head and straightened. His breathing was labored, but smoothing with each breath. “It is time for you to choose whose side you are on, Kairah.”

Kairah shook her head. “Jenoc, please listen. Something is here, an aberration that we need to–

“Choose!”

Jenoc’s enraged scream made Maely flinch. She looked at Kairah’s face and found the woman looking as shocked at the outburst as Maely was. Time to act!

Summoning all of her courage, anger, and whatever other strong emotion brewed within her, Maely opened her mouth to command Jenoc to leap off the roof, but her voice caught in her throat as Jenoc’s eyes flicked to her. Before Maely knew it, a hurricane strength blast of wind crashed into her, lifting her up and hurling her back.

“Maely!” The wind made Kairah’s scream sound unusually distant as Maely arced over the low wall and into empty space.

As she came down, she grabbed the first thing she could; a small, decorative outcropping made of smooth white stone. The hard landing shocked her arms and it was only by wild primal fear that she held on. Yet her hold was tenuous, and she kicked wildly over open air as she strained to pull herself up. She looked down to see a long stretch of stone passing vertically through a wisp of lazily floating clouds. How had she ever thought this tower was only a

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