The Phoenix Bloodline (Fae Prison: Earth Book 3) by Ember Holt

Author:Ember Holt [Holt, Ember]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ember Holt Writes
Published: 2023-11-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter eighteen

Ley Line Capture

David held tight to Maeve’s hand as they skirted the outside of the first outpost. It had been some kind of textile warehouse, and though there was a lot of space to occupy, Maeve sensed there were only five soldiers inside.

There were fae lights that didn’t flicker and emitted no sound housed on poles not unlike Earth streetlamps. Maeve could sense the pull of ka from the Enmatis to power them by opening herself to Predatory Instinct. She could also feel the power that would normally flow farther into the city, under the massive dome erupting in bright lights every few minutes, was cut off.

David’s lizard bloodline camouflaged them with the side of the textile building, helping them fold into the sparse shadows against the tan stone. Maeve was certain that her thundering heartbeat was bound to attract attention soon. As they crept up on their first victim, her pulse raced so fast it made her jackal-sheened eyes strobe.

They stopped behind a stack of empty pallets and Maeve switched to the front. She leaned around the side and got eyes on her target. He was a lithe man, dressed in dark colors with a small, basic insignia on his breast. There wasn’t a bit of stubble on his chin and Maeve knew he couldn’t have been older than she was.

To have his life cut short here would be a shame.

David and Maeve agreed they’d kill as few people as possible on this mission, despite the fact that a living soldier could fight them again another day. David knew Maeve’s heart was too soft for this, and Maeve believed that if they let people live, when they saw them on the battlefield again, they might think twice before landing a deathblow. Silly hopes for worlds that were at war.

But David indulged her all the same.

Maeve tried not to think about what was happening to the other soldiers. She knew Dante would not be as kind. He couldn’t be. Unlike her, his abilities were designed to maim and destroy. She didn’t fault him for it and knew he couldn’t go about this any other way. She put it out of her mind.

There was a bark of laughter from inside the building, and low voices carried after it. The guard turned his attention away from her, looking in the window. Maeve slipped out from behind the pallets and grabbed his face from behind in both hands, dragging him backward.

“Be calm, everything is okay,” she whispered to him, infusing her voice with Hypnotic.

The guard tensed at first, but immediately relaxed under her hold.

She summoned Evoke to her hands. “Show me how many people are in the Enmatis building, their powers, rotations and movements, anything you have.”

Information poured out of the man and into Maeve. Faces and names, positions in the buildings, their powers, when they would shift change—fear. Terror. His body tensed once more and Maeve felt him fighting her hypnosis spell.

Don’t kill me.

Please.

“I don’t want to kill you,” Maeve whispered sincerely with an additional pulse of Hypnotic.

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