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

Interrogator
said.
    The Council all grinned
when they heard Silas and Kralen cursing as their memory came back.
They called for the palace guards to help find her.
    “You may go,” Chevalier told the
General, and Mark disappeared from the room.
    “I wonder if the Valle
have Frederick,” the Chief of Defense said, mostly to
himself.
    “Why though? What could they gain?”
Quinn asked.
    “Causing tension between the Equites
and the Encala,” Kyle suggested.
    “It’s time, I think, to
pay the Valle a visit,” Zohn said, and turned to Chevalier. “We
could send our Interrogator and ask them outright if they have
Frederick. Then we can address the tensions between Thukil and
their Weber Coven.”
    Chevalier nodded, “We’d risk being
taken captive though.”
    “So send Emily,” Quinn
said, thinking. “They wouldn’t dare take us with her there, and it
would give her something to do other than decide when to
attack.”
    Chevalier sighed, “I don’t
know…”
    “It would give her more
purpose. We’re still seeing the effects of her conversation with
Wen,” Zohn said.
    “Get this trial out of the
way. I’ll talk to Em, and we can send a delegation next
week.”
    “Good, Derrick, bring in…”
Quinn stopped when he heard a blood-curdling scream from Emily. The
Council rushed into the hallway and followed her screams up the
stairs to the eighth-floor.
    Mark, Silas, and Kralen
were already there, frantically searching through the rooms. Her
screams stopped abruptly, but Chevalier was picking up a strong
fear from her.
    Mark tore open the storage
room door and saw her almost immediately. She was on the floor in a
tiny ball on her knees. Her arms were covering her head, and she
was whispering something into the floor and shook with
fear.
    He quickly moved to her and knelt
down, “Em?”
    The others appeared in the
doorway. The Council returned to the chamber, except for Chevalier
and Kyle. They both moved into the room.
    “Get’em away… get’em
away,” she was whispering, over and over.
    “Em, what’s wrong?” Chevalier asked as
he knelt down and bent over closer to her.
    “Get’em away,” was all she
said.
    Kyle quickly scanned the
room and then laughed, “Em, are you afraid of bats?”
    Silas looked up at the
bats swarming around the ceiling of the storage room. He reached
out and easily caught one, and it emitted a piercing high screech
that made the heku in the palace cover their ears.
    Silas quickly let the bat go and
winced, “Sorry.”
    Mark grinned and got up off of the
floor.
    Chevalier tried not to laugh, and put
his hand on her back, “Is it the bats?”
    He was surprised that she
was shaking with fear, and when she didn’t answer, he picked her
up, still in her ball, and moved her out into the hallway. Silas
shut the door to the storage room and watched her in a tight ball
on the floor.
    Kralen thought for a
moment and then went back into the storage room, shutting the door
behind him. The palace again filled with the terrifying screech of
bats and the heku covered their ears in pain. A few minutes later,
the screeching stopped and Kralen stepped back out into the
hallway, again shutting the door behind him.
    “Are they dead?” Emily whispered,
still covering her head.
    “No, I let them out,”
Kralen said. “No reason to kill them.”
    She finally looked up and
her eyes were bright red. She scrambled to her feet and quickly ran
into Chevalier’s arms. He wrapped his arms around her and
grinned.
    “That was all over bats?” Mark asked,
amused.
    She pressed herself against Chevalier,
and he shook his head when he felt her tremble, “They’re gone, it’s
ok.”
    They heard her sniffle slightly before
whispering, “They were after me.”
    Kralen chuckled but kept
quiet.
    “Bats don’t really attack,” Chevalier
told her.
    Emily pulled away from Chevalier and
was still shaking when she walked down the stairs, “I’m
moving.”
    “You’re leaving the palace
because of