The fae talking right now…it wasn't him. I eased Riella closer to the edge, watching them both with calculating assessment.
Again Falcon laughed. "Well I would be disappointed if you found my death disgusting,brotherbut I do know who would be disappointed if she saw you now. My poor sister always did look up to your pathetic ass."
"Penina will rejoice the moment you're dead."
I inhaled sharply as did my daughter but continued to side step us away.
Falcon's beady eyes glittered in the rain turning on our startled reactions. "Tsk tsk, my sister has been keeping secrets from you, has she Remi Darling? She is just as much as a deceiver as I am it seems…the family trait is uncanny, is it not? Although being the oldest by a few seconds, I'd say I am still better than her."
My mind whirled on our past interactions. Penina's eyes turned black with her anger, the same as her brother’s now, the vehemence she had when learning Falcon was still alive, the secrets she held tight to her heart."Did you know?"I shot along our bond to Emon but again, the words seemed blocked as if he had shut me out. Of course he knew…Skyler had alluded to just as much in her memory, I just hadn’t given it time to puzzle out yet.
Emon snarled and stepped to shield us despite our side stepping retreat. "Your focus should be more on me,foster brother," he spat and lightning flashed brightly between them. Wrath’s territory was enjoying this show.
Falcon's laughter joined the amused realm. "Oh I am not here for you…our time will be for another day, although it has been a pleasure watching you destroy yourself all in the name of some low grade shadow cunt."
I stepped beside Emon, shaking the water from my eyes. "Now, now Falcon, there is no need to be jealous. I can't help that the shifter king prefers my low grade shadow cunt over your pecking bird dick. But I can see how much you resent this…first Deirdre, then Emon. That must sting pretty bad. That no one wants you." Baring my teeth, I snarled, pointing my sword at him. "Now get the fuck off my step and out of my realm before I kill you where you stand, bird scum."
Falcon snickered but his eyes didn't hide the storm inside, even with the rain. Bowing low he grinned wretchedly. "Apologies, Remi darling, I have delayed you long enough. Enjoy my parting gift…I'll be waiting for you in the Sanguine." His eyes glittered before he shifted with a bright flash, his falcon wings spreading and flapping against the fierce winds and rain.
Emon roared, lunging forward and knocking Riella and I both to the side to shift into his swirling dark mass, pursuing the tawny wings and laughing black eyes that were disappearing into the storming clouds.
"Faedere!" Riella screamed from behind me, her spirit guide hissing and then disappearing completely when the sky lit up with thousands of winged beasts.
Then the storm above us started to glow…a red hue, a sinister light gathering above.
Blood crystals.
Chapter 55
Torn,rendered.
I was floating in a haze of pain and anguish.
Who am I?
Darkness.
I was the darkness. A hungry void that desired nothing yet craved everything.
Faintly, I remember I was ravenous in my chase for the bird shifter’s soul. His name mattered not—all I could recall was that he needed to be fucking wiped out from the universe for all of time. My need for it had been powerful, my hunger for him infinite. He had been mine to goddess damn devour until the time decided to make another foe to feed me once again.
There had also been fear and anguish, so much of it that I thought…perhaps it would be best if I consumed that too—an entire universe to gorge upon.
Thenher voice screamed up towards me and I had hesitated.
Why did I hesitate? What was it about her sound that made mefeela shattered heart and remember a fragmented soul?
Torn, severed.
I was still floating, battered and wrecked.
That’s what had happened. I paused and the red light burrowed deep, cutting through my all consuming darkness. There had been alarm, something inside me knowing a fear of this power that ripped through me. But in my ignorance, I did not listen and it had cost me.
Now that same power crawled through the holes of damaged darkness while I drifted through nothingness. Its presence fed off of my splintered soul, a deadly parasite that pulsed and writhed.
How had I gotten here?
What had I forgotten?
