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“Of course.” He cleared his throat when I went to turn away. “If the answer is no, I also suggest you extend the trading post with Hanna or at least allow us to inform other covens. You would get more killing for the food.”
“Yes, but we need to get more to Hanna then. Check with Winston or directly with Hanna on what we’re plotting. We need those answers though. Let Nora and Olivia know that I want Ireland and the whole UK cleared of corrupted. We’ll give them the weapons, but we need to start having definite safe zones. It will be a way to keep the government quiet too.”
“If they did it, yes, I agree.” He dipped his head to me and then Kristof carried me to Kaitlin’s coven.
We blurred right in like we owned the place.
“How dare you—” the princess who had to be Kaitlin started.
“Save it,” I drawled. “You cannot really be surprised I’m here.”
“She is,” Kristof told me, trying to keep the amusement out of his voice.
“Well, then you’re as stupid as you are cruel. Killing over food? Seriously? What the fuck is wrong with you?”
“I’m not going to listen to some young princess who has the guts to declare herself Aether’s champion. And I won’t—”
Nope. She didn’t have to listen to me anymore. I wasn’t going through this normal shtick. She was more powerful than Bahati and Safie from what I could feel, but I’d learned some new tricks as well.
I used my power to throw a barrier over her like Vitor had taught me… And then shocked Kaitlin with my charge until she got gross.
“She’s definitely dead, right?” I checked with Kristof when I pulled my power back.
“Very,” he chuckled but then shot me a weird look. “You didn’t take her blood though.”
“I don’t want it. She smells weird,” I muttered. “Something seems off and—”
A man who had been standing near Kaitlin knelt. “She was poisoning her blood in case you came, Princess. It made her slightly ill and she drank more from us, but it was enough to kill you.”
Everyone with me—and several from Kaitlin’s court—couldn’t hide their disgust.
I looked up. “Thank you for the warning, Aether. I never take your protection and guidance for granted.” I focused on the nobles there and the others who had come zipping into the room. “For the record, Aether sent me a vision about your princess and some others that She wanted their covens set free. So this is about more than your poor dead.
“This is Aether’s blessing that you can be saved and don’t deserve the suffering you have been enduring.” I gave them a moment with that. “Her nobles are now mine. As I did with Bahati’s court, I want you all to testify to what you saw today. That I was able to kill Kaitlin from a distance without her even being able to fight back.”
I gave them the same speech I had before, saying the coven would then be disbanded and everything returned to the Earth. They could have guest privileges at my coven as long as they worked, or they could go on their way, Aether bless them. But no one would be taking over this coven… Which I would need to say to the two princesses who had been adopted by Kaitlin.
Except then I was told they fled when they felt me.
Yeah, I wouldn’t have wanted to risk getting killed for the boss.
I nodded as I considered that, glancing at the nobles. “If you know how to find them, do it and let them know that they’re not being targeted by Aether. I will not be taking them in my court, but if they would like to be a guest at my coven with the rank of a noble, I will accept them.”
“That’s dangerous, My Princess,” Kristof worried.
“For them as well,” I sighed. “I probably won’t let them stay, but they’ve been starved and more as well and the world is perilous. So they can stay for a few months and we can reevaluate. Nothing more.”
“Your kindness is more than we even heard,” that same kneeling noble told me.
“Thank you. I hope you all feel that way and will handle your coven, guide them to make smart choices during this scary time. We offer much, but everyone works and we have rules. My husband Jaxon will speak with each of you in turn so nothing slips through the cracks. I suggest you listen to him no matter if you’re older.”
And just like that it was done.
“Actually, there is something I want you to see first and attest to,” I cut in as people were making plans. I glanced over at Sundar. “Everything is out of your former coven?”
I had promised to return Bahati’s coven to the ground after I took over, but too much had been… Life was a mess. But I’d asked Sundar to make sure everyone got everything out of there that people might want to have later. To check with every member of that coven and be sure.
Nothing would be worse in the middle of all this loss if I destroyed family heirlooms and treasured items because they hadn’t grabbed them while leaving after I killed Bahati. People hadn’t been thinking straight with the crazy and a lot of them had been starving. Now they’d had time to think about what they could have forgotten or would miss.
