The Shadow Games by Samantha Sabian

Author:Samantha Sabian [Sabian, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arianthem Press
Published: 2015-07-15T04:00:00+00:00

The vampyr watched, astonished. This seal had thwarted the most powerful mages and wizards in Arianthem. It had destroyed even the most powerful of her kind who thought themselves capable of withstanding its curse. And yet this Scinterian had removed it with an ease and nonchalance that was staggering.

“There we are,” Raine said with satisfaction.

“Let me get this for you,” Lorifal said, grabbing the elaborate handle on the iron door. He wrenched it open with a great heave, the hinges protesting their disuse with a shrieking of metal-on-metal.

“You are such a gentleman,” Raine said, then with a wink and a smile to Kylan, she was gone into the darkness.

Kylan was greatly entertained by the Scinterian, but her demeanor changed abruptly when she turned back to the vampyr. Her tone, which had been nothing but playful with Talan’s love, now was as cold as her ice-blue eyes.

“The Shadow Guild,” she said with contempt. “A deadly snake with so many heads. Although I must confess this plot is a good one because it is so subversive. A direct attack would rally the alliance, but a subversive one will divide.”

The vampyr, not one for disclosure, found herself on the defensive.

“If you know that much, you know that our contract is with those as powerful as you.”

“I doubt that Jörmung or Volva is as powerful as I,” Kylan said, her contempt even more pronounced, “and I assure you your organization has bet on the wrong dragon, for Talan is greater than both.”

Kylan raised her hand and blew out as if blowing dust or snowflakes from her palm. But instead of snowflakes, a blast of glacial wind came forth, freezing the first row of trees of the clearing so that their bows were heavy with icicles and the trunks were frozen solid. And then, with a mere clap of her hands, the trees shattered, and where before had stood towering pines, now there were only piles of ice shards on the ground.

“That is what I will do to you if you even think to cross me,” Kylan said, then muttered to herself, “or maybe I will just transform and sit on the lot of you.”

The vampyr looked at the ice with consternation. This was not magic but physical destruction. They could not stand against it, so all carefully laid plans were lost. She did not think she would be forgiven for failure twice.

“You should return to your Guild,” Kylan said, “and tell them to reconsider their contract.”

“You know we cannot do that. As long as the contract is in effect, a head of state must die.”

“I’m not talking about that one,” Kylan said, her casual tone hardening. “We will take care of that one. I’m talking about the contract on Raine. I have met her only once, but I tell you this, if anything happens to her, I will hunt down and destroy every last one of you.”

A muscle in the vampyr’s jaw worked as she considered her options, realizing she had only one.

“Then I will return to my superior and forward your words.

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