Page 1 of Rose and Shadows
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~Lazriel~
It was deafening.
The roars, the screaming.
Panic and terror ripped through me like a living entity.
I could feel it in my bones, prickling at my skin, and blazing in my fucking veins.
Burns had scalded my body from where that psychopath had hit me with his magic.
I was fucking bleeding with it from so many places.
The impact of being thrown while infected with black magic had messed with my durability—which had been supreme lately with me bringing out my vampire side more and calling on my Ancient blood—and I was running with broken bones.
All that pain was nothing compared to the sight of Velra trapped as Morien unleashed.
A wave of his tainted magic swept toward her.
Too fast.
Too powerful.
It was gonna kill her.
I had to stop it… I had to… I couldn’t fucking make it.
I could see it. I knew it.
I was compromised.
The distance… I couldn’t cover it in time.
Ketheron was incapacitated, on his knees now, screaming, his hands clutching his head in agony as Morien’s allies tore into his mind.
Cassius, Kai, and Ryker were being held in a necromantic hold off the ground that shouldn’t even be possible, but Morien had violated necromantic law with Celestial magic.
Fucking shit.
Beyond, I saw Nyx frantic, seeing the situation, being pulled away by Vorzyr where the two of them had been gathering the hundreds of hybrids of this CRS facility, teleporting them out in droves.
Vorzyr had a wall of his dragon flame thrown up a few feet from the entrance and a ward as well, a desperate move to try to shield those who still remained when Morien’s wave hit.
A wave that would turn everyone it touched to ash.
A wave about to hit the woman I loved.
“Velra!” I bellowed out across the distance.
Through all the chaos, I didn’t register it until it was too late, and a rush of violent wind inundated me, before a voice sounded through it.
“Stand down. You cannot survive him.”
“Dad,” I rasped.
It was all I managed to get out before I actually saw his form, and a split-second later, he bodychecked me. With me running at full speed and him as well, it ripped me right off my feet and it sent me flying fifty feet away into a tree.
