The Revenge by Holly Martin

Author:Holly Martin [Martin, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BluA
Published: 2015-12-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Lucas was painting one of the walls with what looked like a picture of the Oraculum’s castle.

‘Lucas.’

Lucas turned and grinned when he saw me, quickly crossing the gap between us to hug me again.

His smell was so real, so was his warmth.

I pulled away. ‘Lucas, how’s Seth?’

Lucas pulled a face. ‘Exhausted, he refuses to sleep, refuses to even rest, I don’t think he’s eating or drinking either. He’s just running.’

I had to believe in this reality, I had to believe he was alive, because if the truth really was that he was dead, there was only a dark abyss of pain and grief waiting for me. I couldn’t go back there again, I’d only just crawled out.

I swallowed, closing my eyes against the answer to my next question. ‘Do you know who Mason’s brother is?’

‘No, why?’

I opened my eyes, feeling the horrendous grief swallow me, sucking me in.

‘Mason said it would prove whether I’m really here or not. If I came back with the right answer, then I’d know that I had entered your dream, that Seth really was alive. But you don’t know.’ I turned away from him.

Lucas caught my shoulder and turned me back to face him. ‘I don’t Eve, but then as your Guardians we rarely sit around in idle chat, most of our conversation was about you, about how to protect you, what was happening beyond your house that might cause problems for you. What you were going through. We rarely talked about our past, our families. Guardians are not the sort of people that would get out the photo album and reminisce.’

‘Mason said you’d know,’ I said.

‘Me?’ Lucas looked away from me, as if he was trying to remember. ‘Eli probably knows, he knows a lot more about your history than I do, and he chose the personal guard himself. I’ll ask him as soon as I wake up.’

I nodded. ‘I guess I’ll have to wait,’ I looked across at the painting. ‘What are you doing?’

‘Trying to control my dreams. Once I’m asleep I’m not really able to control where they go, hence why Persia keeps cropping up in them, so I’m trying to force them in a certain direction. I decided I wanted to paint so the paintbrush and paint appeared. I painted the Oraculum’s castle because… well I thought it might help.’

I took the paintbrush off him and painted in the portcullis, closed. ‘There are ten Guardians on the other side of this, and the portcullis is the only entrance through this wall,’ I pointed to the wall. ‘The wall is about thirty feet high, so I imagine you could get over it, but there are lots of Guardians patrolling the inside of the wall, you couldn’t get past them all. If you did, the only entrance into the castle is the main entrance as the first level of windows is easily a hundred foot up, maybe more. The main entrance is guarded by four more Guardians.’

Lucas nodded, taking it all in.

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