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My eyes popped open and relief filled me when I saw she was. “Nothing? You didn’t feel anything?”
“I felt nothing painful, but it was like something moved over me,” she said before darting closer. “I don’t know how to describe it. It wasn’t really hot, but it was sort of like when certain electronics are turned on around you and you can feel it? Almost like vibrations past me. So I could sense it, but it did not affect me in the slightest. Well done, Princess.”
Awesome. That was seriously, seriously, awesome.
And a way to help big time in these kinds of situations. I played with it a good ten minutes before I listened to Kristof and shut it down. I would need all my energy tomorrow to handle the ghosts this would give me.
Also, Mozell said she would come with the Sisters and kill even more once I was safe at the castle so it wasn’t too many ghosts for me tomorrow.
Done and done.
She was gone the second we returned and I wanted my tree for some reason. I wasn’t sure until I reached it.
Then I cut my hand and knelt at the tree, putting blood on it even if that did—and would always—gross me out.
Aether, thank you for giving me time to heal until the next battle. Thank you for giving me gifts that have options and I can adjust. Thank you for giving me so many to help who want to join in this battle. I know Keres is up to something more, but I feel confident we can manage what is being thrown at us.
I know that might not always be the case, and I’ve come too close to breaking, but I believe we can… Survive. Endure? Win sounds like this is a game, and it’s not a fucking game when so many lives are on the line but yes, you win wars and battles. It just sounds…
I shook my head, getting off track, and that certainly wasn’t what I wanted to be praying to Aether about. It was just something always on my mind.
I prayed a bit more asking for any gentle signs we were on the right path or what She thought we should handle next. We were ready for more humans, and the timing made me think it wasn’t an accident.
Flinching when I realized I wasn’t alone, I let out a slow breath and relaxed when saw it was Kristof. I turned and smiled at him, but saw he had his eyes closed, clearly praying as well.
And not just him.
Shocked rocked me when I saw Darius was there.
Jaxon.
Cerdic.
Even Branko but slightly back.
Then several of my knights and other nobles of the coven. All of us were praying to Aether in thanks. I wasn’t sure, but it felt like the coven was holding strong and we had somewhere safe. We weren’t all parts of crazy anymore, a team trying to keep moving to better.
Fuck, we really just needed to cross the line into post-apocalypse. We’d gotten so damn close before Keres and realizing Erebus wasn’t just going to let us win.
But if we all stood together and kept fighting as a team, I knew we were on the winning side.
Even if it wasn’t a fucking game but the fate of the world.
10
I was really glad when word reached me that the fight at Fort Knox was over. It didn’t look like anyone had been infected, but we would have to check for sure because corrupted had breached the last fence while we were helping. Someone could have gotten scratched or bitten and hidden it.
Eddie was going to set up a closer listening post with several others because we needed to know what was going on inside there, not just burst transmissions from the bugs someone had snuck in. They had to know someone helped them from the fighter jets alone.
Seriously, there was no keeping it quiet anymore that others were out there with more than them and we were watching.
That was a problem for tomorrow.
Tonight, I was handling a situation that I’d let go on for too long and I was done being passive on.
I received all of the updates as they came in, commending everyone for their hard work and how they handled the situation. Everyone had jumped in and done exactly what they should. That was amazing, and I made it clear that everyone should be praised.
“Think of what people would like,” I told those gathered. “Even the guests. Something fun. Maybe a bunch of tablets we can load some movies on to take to your covens or people can have for the kids. We can make the time and take a day of power—even from the ghosts tomorrow—to have something extra. I think it’s important we take those moments.”
