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“Yes!” I exclaim as he stalks over to us.
Standing near Kai, Kirian peers down with alarm. To him, it looks like letters are magically appearing.
“Quinn?” He motions his mate over. “You’ve got to see this.”
She gets next to him and slowly reads, “Get… Get what?”
“I don’t know,” Kirian responds, his voice tinged with wonder.
“How is this happening?”
“I don’t know,” he says again. “But someone is trying to tell us something.”
Kai puts the ‘M’ in place. Then the ‘A’ and the ‘D.’
“Get mad?” Kirian recites incredulously, not realizing the word isn’t finished yet. “I am mad!” He shakes his fist at the sky, and his voice is strained with raw emotion when he shouts, “This is bullshit!”
“Wait, just watch.” Quinn pats her husband’s arm as the rest of Madden’s name is spelled.
“Madden?” they both ask at the same time.
We’ve gained the attention of a few warriors, and one of them inquires, “Who’s Madden?”
“A suspect in Princess Zaylee’s kidnapping,” Kirian answers, flustered because he doesn’t understand. “This is a strange time for some mystical presence to tell me to find a fugitive. If I knew where to find the asshole, he would’ve been apprehended and executed already.”
Growling with frustration over the fact that he’s going to have to be more specific, Kai promptly continues the message, putting a period at the end of his two-word command. Then he adds ‘HE.’
Unfortunately, the fragments from Alosi’s explosion are almost here.
Wide-eyed, I stare at what’s coming.
This shower is dense, filled with a lot of rocks that are bigger than pebbles, and it becomes clear that this entire area is about to experience some serious damage.
“Move!” Kirian orders, gesturing the warriors back as he ushers Quinn away. “Take cover behind the palace!”
“Wait!” I yell, going unheard, of course.
Everyone flocks across the lawn, temporarily abandoning us and the cannons. With a combination of sprinting and flying, they all vacate the lawn very quickly, and I helplessly look at the message Kai’s desperately trying to finish. He’s putting together a ‘C’ when he gives the sky a quick glance.
“Go with them,” he barks at me, but I stay planted in the grass.
“I’m not leaving you.”
“You must. I’ll come to you soon. Do it, Sunny.”
Disobeying him, I watch two Pyros in the second line of defense fly toward a portion that’s frighteningly large. When they get near it, they blast it with fire together in a collective effort to break it apart. It works, but the man and woman end up sacrificing their lives because they’re unable to get out of the way in time to avoid a collision.
Upon impact with their bodies, there’s a bright burst of flames, and it fractures the meteor into three smaller pieces.
We’re not safe, though.
One chunk is headed for the gardens, really close to us. Kai’s finished the ‘CAN’ and he’s making the ‘HE’ in what I think ishelp, but he’ll have to come back to the message.
“Come on.” I urgently prod his shoulder.
He sends me an incredulous glare filled with fury. “What are you still doing here? Just listen to me for once and go!”
He’s so loud, so uncompromising, my feet automatically start moving. He’s been stern with me before, but never like that.
