Eternity of Vengeance : Book 7 of the Heku Series Read Free Page A

guards chuckled as
they passed. She stepped into the palace and was led up to the
council chambers.
    Derrick grinned and opened
the door. Emily walked in after Mark, Silas, and Kralen.
    “Got caught, did you?” Dustin asked,
amused.
    “I took out a fair share first…
including these three,” she told him.
    “She shot you?” Dustin asked
Mark.
    Mark nodded, “Yes, but it won’t happen
again.”
    “So what do you plan on doing to her?”
Quinn asked, pretending to be mad.
    “She’s our prisoner, but we haven’t
yet decided,” Kralen told him.
    “I could use a nice swim,”
Emily told them. Using what the Encala taught her, she very quietly
slipped her hands out of the handcuffs. The guards were standing a
bit ahead of her, so they didn’t notice when she slipped them into
her back pocket.
    “Swimming?” Mark grinned.
“That’s too…”
    He grew quiet and looked
at Silas and Kralen. Emily stood up straight and brushed off her
pants.
    “Why are you in camo?” Silas asked
her.
    Emily smiled, “I was just
going to go out for training, remember?”
    Mark was looking around the council
chambers, “What’d you erase? I don’t remember coming in
here.”
    “Em…” Chevalier chuckled, and then
shook his head.
    She turned and started for the door,
but Kralen took her arm, “What did you erase?”
    “You really shouldn’t use your
abilities on the Equites,” Dustin growled.
    Emily ignored him and pulled her arm
out of Kralen’s grasp, “It was nothing, really… I better go, my
guards are waiting.”
    She grinned and left the council
chambers.
    “What did she erase?” Mark
asked the Elders.
    “I don’t believe it
requires Council attention,” Zohn said, grinning.
    Emily quickly ran up to
the eighth-floor, and headed into a storage room. The door was old
and stiff, but she managed to get it open, and then shut the door
behind her. Inside was a dark room, long abandoned, and full of old
furniture covered with dust cloths and stacked high, almost to the
ceiling. She sat down on a dusty couch and started to read the book
she grabbed on the way up.
    Silas frowned, “Was it something
bad?”
    “No,” Chevalier told him.
“Though I would suggest you may want to keep her in sight until you
remember.”
    Mark nodded, “Go find her.”
    Kralen and Silas disappeared from the
room.
    “Good luck,” Kyle chuckled.
    “Perfect”
    “Mark, one more thing,” Quinn said
before he left.
    “Yes, Elder?”
    “Lately, she seems
particularly upset with Frederick’s disappearance.”
    “I’ve noticed… She’s been
asking a lot of questions.”
    “Like what?”
    “Things about the
banished. Is a heku aware when in ash form? How long before they
naturally heal? That sort of thing.”
    “So she thinks he’s been banished?”
Zohn asked, frowning.
    “I’m not sure, but I think so,” Mark
told him.
    “Her dreams have nothing about the
Equites banishing him,” Chevalier said.
    “Just keep an eye on her.
She may try to protect us if she thinks we’ve banished him and run
the risk of an Encala attack,” Quinn said.
    Mark nodded, “Yes, Elder…
though, we already are watching her closely. We’re still waiting
for her to seek revenge for Jaron.”
    Chevalier nodded, “It’s
coming.”
    Kralen came back in with a
confused look on his face, “We’re not catching a recent scent. It’s
hours old.”
    “She masked it,” Kyle told
him, and went back to reading a ledger.
    “What did she do?”
    Dustin sighed, “She interrupted your
guard training to play one of her games.”
    Mark’s eyes narrowed and then he
grinned, “I have paint on my shirt.”
    “So do Silas and I,” Kralen told
him.
    “Damnit,” Mark chuckled,
smiling. “She’s supposed to be our prisoner.”
    “She is?” Kralen asked, eyes
wide.
    “Just go find her.”
    He nodded and walked out
of the council chambers.
    “We need to find a way to avoid that,”
Mark told the Council.
    “Yes, we do,” the Chief