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He kissed my forehead again. “Take a minute in here with the birds. I’m going to get my men to set the other ones in place—I took them off the mountain, just in case.”
Damen’s men were quick. In ten minutes, they had the other cells adjoining this one ready for me. In another ten minutes Damen had kissed me goodbye and had left in the helicopter that had landed on the castle’s training grounds.
The thrum of the copter blades faded away, and within five minutes, his voice came from my phone that still sat in my lap.
“We landed. Go to the cell two down. Same side.”
I found my feet and, to my own surprise, my balance was sturdy.
Silent, stealthy in approaching death, I went into the cell he’d directed me to.
This malefic was chained to a chair in the middle of the room. This wasn’t a torture chamber. Just an empty storage room. It would do.
I didn’t even bother to categorize the wounds and mutations put upon his body. I didn’t care. Deliverance that only I could supply was upon him.
But still, I needed something more. I couldn’t just manifest death, the energy of it, out of thin air.
I had set my phone down on the threshold of the room, and I talked over my shoulder to it.
“Tell me what this one did.”
There was no hesitation in Damen’s words. “This one was particularly brutal. Before he made it to my daughter’s bedroom in the middle of the night, he killed three of her guards. Then he joined his brethren in her bedroom, spitting on her as he mauled her breasts as the first one raped her. He was second in line and he ripped her to pieces before he?—”
All I needed to hear, and death exploded out of my palm, aimed at the bastard.
The malefic’s skin melted off his body, blood and bone and muscle dissolving downward until his body slowly disintegrated in front of me. Not a full explosion. It looked…more targeted...slow…measured.
“Damn, Ada.” Awe was clear in Damen’s voice behind me. “You are my fucking supernova.”
I spun on the heel of my sneaker and picked up the phone. “Don’t celebrate this.”
“I’m celebrating the control with which you did that. You wanted him to feel pain on the way out and you did that. A swift death. But a painful one.”
“He deserved it.”
“You don’t have to tell me. Now go to the cell right next to this one.”
I stalked across the stone floor, the energy still brewing a whirlwind within me and threatening to surge into my skull in a painful mess.
I whipped open the door to the next cell.
“Another guy.” The words hissed through my clenched teeth.
The malefic jerked at my intrusion into the room—he could see out of both of his eyes and they tracked me warily.
“And?” Damen asked.
“And he’s chained to the floor on his back.”
“Ada—he’s alive.” Excitement was clear in Damen’s voice. “This was the real test. You sent out death and you didn’t kill this bastard not but a few feet away from you. He was right next to you—right next to you—and you didn’t kill him.”
I nodded to myself, understanding and a swell of self-assurance that I’d never felt before filled my chest.
I set the phone down, stepping toward the bastard. “What did this one do?”
He was the one that turned to my granddaughter when she rushed into the room at her mother screaming, he?—”
Already dying. Slower this time. Strip by strip, his flesh peeled from his body, burning to a crip as it rolled off of him, his insides melting before he dissolved into oblivion.
