The Prism City (Kingdoms of Oz Book 3) by Carrie Whitethorne

Author:Carrie Whitethorne [Whitethorne, Carrie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Kali swooped over the palace and what I saw there wasn’t good.

The whole building had been hollowed out, and I couldn’t see where Sayer had dumped the rubble, leaving the entire lower floor open. Looking down, I could see him kneeling by the vault, staring up to the sky.

He saw me.

He was ready.

But where was Glinda?

It was obvious she wouldn’t be far away, and I looked above us just to be safe.

“Kali, where is she?”

My faithful mount cried out, banking sharply to the right and swooping low over the city. People were running, limping, and even being carried toward the north and western gates, fleeing the city on my orders. The Shifters were guiding them, helping them along as the clouds above rolled into one another and a mighty crack of thunder echoed through the skies. As that sound died, another echoed through the city. I knew what that was too. A glance down at Sayer proved it.

“Shit. Kali, he’s locked the gates. Find her. We have to stop this.”

The rain was falling hard, and the higher Kali flew the less I could see. But there was one thing I recognized. You learned to read the sky growing up in Kansas. I spent three months of the year on high alert watching for what was going on over my head. But while she could manipulate the clouds, I could control the wind, and that gave me the advantage.

“We need to get over it,” I yelled to Kali. “Right over the top. Can you manage in this wind?”

Her response was to alter her flight angle to forty-five degrees.

All I could do was tighten my grip and lower my head to her neck to protect myself from the rain.

She’d make it. I knew she could make it.

That’s what I told myself over and over for what felt like hours as she climbed to that impossible height in impossible weather.

When she finally leveled out, I raised my head and patted the side of her neck. “You’re incredible. This is… shit, Kali, look at that.”

She didn’t seem too impressed, but she hung there while I admired the spectacle.

I’d seen the videos, but they didn’t compare to the experience of being right there in front of it. The way the clouds moved, the feel of the atmosphere on your skin. The smell of the charged ozone up here. I’d never experience that again.

Lightning flashed, followed almost immediately by thunder, snapping me out of my admiration of the cyclone beneath us.

“Okay, we need to get inside and fly down. She can’t see us inside and I need to get to Sayer.”

Kali didn’t hesitate, plunging down into the eye of the storm, and I had to cling to her with my thighs as I slid down her neck. And that was when I let go. I handed Glinda control of the churning waters and left her to struggle to control it.

Sayer was looking down at the vault when we landed, I didn’t know if he knew we were there.

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