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You’re probably right, but we need answers, Azriel, and we’re not going to get the chances

You take too many chances as it is

Maybe, but what other choice did I have? It wasn’t like fate--or anyone else--was running around dropping clues at our feet I drew ain Fire flickered across Aht across the pillars and sparking the quartz within the stone to life They stood about six feet tall and, like the ones we’d discovered underground, were covered in writing and sy--and powerful

I swept Aht to check if there was any sort of protection circle present She was unusually quiet, which meant she detected no i, but it wasn’t Not when Azriel’s tension flowed through me like a distant storm

These pillars have no protection circle The others did

Maybe Nadler--or whoever else rents this storage locker--thinks the h

I frowned at the stones I wonder if these stones are a means of transport like the first ones we found were

That, he said, voice sharper, is not so Not when you have no idea of the type of oes

Yeah, but as I’ve said, we’re not likely to discover our answers by sitting here staring at the fucking things

Risa--

I know I know I’ it anyway

He didn’t reply, but then, he didn’t need to His anger cah so thick and fast, it daan to hiss, the sound soft but fierce, filled with expectation I continued to stare at the stones and hoped like hell I was ave way to common sense, I forced my feet forward and stepped in between the two stones

Chapter 3

Nothing happened

No light flare, no caress ofThe stones were silent Inert

I raised a hand and tentatively brushed the stone’s surface Life pulsed under ertips It was alic was there and ready to react It just hadn’t Yet it had before

I closed my eyes as the realization of what that meant sunk in I’d been Aedh when they’d reacted, which meant these stones had been attuned to that for--one man--who had one, if not both, of those forms and as also involved in the search for the keys

Lucian

Fuck! He really had taken me for a ride, and in more ways than one The bastard had told me--constantly--that he couldn’t take Aedh form, that the ability had been stripped from him by the Raziq when they’d tortured hiht be yet another lie in a growing list of the tortured, Azriel said Your father all but confir hireatly

Ah me What about the whole "stripped of his powers" spiel? How much truth was there in that?

I think it was skillfully mixed with untruths I do not, however, believe he can attain full Aedh forht not be for his use? And did that mean we had another Aedh--soround?

Azriel hesitated I aic, but I suspect that if Lucian does use these stones, then they would be attuned to a full Aedh, in whatever forht explain why they didn’t react when I was in human form, but not why they did when I was in Aedh<ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:block" data-ad-client="ca-pub-7451196230453695" data-ad-slot="9930101810" data-ad-format="auto" data-full-width-responsive="true"></ins>