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She has that right. “It doesn’t. Even the Loup is suppressed.”
“The humans have guns and super vamps.” Cora begins to pace. “Fee will be walking into a trap. With this ward running, they’ll be fucked.”
With the ward running… The door with the buzz of power radiating out from it…Could it be?
A plan forms in my mind, risky as fuck, but our only option.
“Then we need to make sure the wards are turned off.”
Chapter Thirty-Five
Fee
The farmhouse was crawling with Magiguard. They had the whole place under lockdown. They’d even found a second portal and put it under guard.
We stood at the foot of the staircase, ready to head inside.
Me, Grayson, Uriel, and Bastian along with six other Loup and a team of six Magiguard.
“You remember how to use the comm?” Ursula asked me.
I tapped the tiny radio clipped to my hip. “Yes. Are you sure this will work?”
“Positive. We use them for portal-link communication all the time.” She stared at the portal, lit up bright now because of the activation runes her guards had drawn into the air. “Whoever did this knows their stuff.” She jerked her chin at the Magiguard team. “Bring them in if you can. If the perpetrators are human, use non-lethal force, otherwise…whatever goes.”
Non-lethal force if the bad guys were human. They couldn’t be… Could they?
“Remember,” Ursula said. “Activate the tracker as soon as you go through. It’s the only way we’ll be able to find you.” She tapped the gun at my hip. “Red for lethal, green for stun.”
“I’ve got it.” I also had my daggers and scythe for any non-human wankers who got in my way.
Grayson and I started up the steps together. He took my hand as we reached the top.
“You ready?” he asked.
His face was lit up by the bright light of the portal, golden hair ablaze as if he was backlit by a halo. My heart squeezed with love for him.
“I’m ready.”
We stepped through together and landed on dark rocks slick with water. The wind howled, and the air had bite.
“What the fuck?” Grayson said.
The crash of waves mingled with the moaning of the wind, and the sea churned below, dark and forbidding.
“It’s an island!” Uri called out from above us.
He was on a higher outcrop of rocks just above us, and then he vanished.
“Uri!” I ran toward the rock face, scrambling to get up it.
“I’m all right!” His voice was whipped away by the wind. “I can’t jump, though. The wards must be tampering with my ability.”
Unease prickled my nape. I held out my hand and summoned my scythe, waiting for the tell-tale heat that signaled its arrival.
Nothing. “Um…Grayson, I can’t access my scythe.”
But Grayson was rubbing his chest, his expression grim. “My Loup…It feels…distant.”
