The Marked Ones by Russell Nohelty

Author:Russell Nohelty
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: angels, warlock, thriller, norse mythology novels, war, coming of age, survival
Publisher: Russell Nohelty
Published: 2020-08-04T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

I slipped and fell through the darkness of my mind for I didn’t know how long, but eventually my eyes blearily fluttered open, and I woke. It took me a moment, but when my eyes focused again, I saw Lito’s smiling face looking over at me from a chair in the corner of a small room filled with antique furniture.

“Hi,” Lito said. “Welcome back. You gave us quite a scare.”

I laid on a large four-poster bed, with a lace canopy drooping down from the wooden posts around me. Along every wall were beautiful paintings of old men, encased in elaborately carved picture frames. A wooden cabinet sat against the far window, and an oaken night table was beside me.

“Where am I?” I asked, groggily.

“My house. Once the house of the famous painter Francisco Goya, though I have spruced up the place a bit.”

“What happened?” I asked, barely registering what he told me.

“Something amazing,” Fiona said, walking into the room through a small wooden door next to me. “You are the first person ever to use a third power; that of the Ground.”

“That’s impossible,” I replied. “Nobody can use more than two powers.”

“I thought so too, at first,” Lito said, standing up. Either the room was too small, or he was larger than I realized because he nearly hit the white plaster ceiling. “But the Tuppins confirmed it with a dozen eyewitness accounts of your cheeks glowing with a mountain and the ground quaking beneath you.”

I shot up in bed, remembering the quake that sent the roof of the Tuppins building crumbling down. “That was me?”

Fiona nodded. “Yes, you have demonstrated something amazing, Rosie. There is no doubt you are the one to fulfill the prophecy.”

I didn’t care about that, or anything else. “Tibor and Anabelle, are they okay?”

“Everybody is fine,” Fiona said. “I convinced the Tuppins to hold off their sentencing until we could examine you more fully. After all, it seemed as though your friend’s verdict set off your powers, but we will know more with testing.”

I shook my head vigorously. “No deal. I will never help you while my friends are imprisoned.”

“You are in no position to demand anything from me,” she scoffed. “As I said, I would like you alive, but it’s not a requirement.”

In the light from the window, I noticed a twitch in Fiona’s eye. She was lying. I knew it in the cockles of my soul, and even if she wasn’t, I was willing to call her bluff.

“You’re lying, Fiona,” I said, steely-eyed. “If you are willing to kill me, then do it.”

“Please, ladies,” Lito said. “There is no need to kill anyone.”

“Shut up, Charles,” Fiona grumbled, looking straight through me, deep into the recesses of my soul. A sudden chill went through my body, and I felt her trying to force her will upon me. However, I was not the meek child I was when I left home. I had been forged in the depth of loss and pain, which made me strong.

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