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Yep. Please. Yeah, and make mine an extra large.” He looked up at Galen. “Rhiannon’s on the way. I figured we’d need back up.”
“Thanks for asking.”
“Anytime.” Flash grinned. “So what?”
“We see what he was looking for.” Galen strode across the floor, heading towards the stairs to the apartment. As he reached the top, he heard an odd noise. “Dera!” he called. An angry croak came from down the hall. Sprinting through the living room, he discovered the door to the bathroom jammed closed, a chair wedged against the knob and the skeleton key that was always in the lock lying on the floor in the hallway. He quickly opened the door and both ravens swept out, croaking angrily, seemingly twice their usual size.
“ Where is he?” Dor demanded.
“I don’t know. He drove out of the parking lot.”
“ I go.” The raven dipped his head and was out the broken window before Galen could say another word.
Dera landed on his shoulder and gently butted his cheek. “Are you injured?”
“No.” He walked to the table where Rob had been sitting. There were still books open on the table, paper marking various spots. Galen bent closer to one page, then glanced at another. “Do you think he was trying to leave us clues?”
“ How?”
“I don’t know. When I healed him, it was there, so maybe he was trying to leave us breadcrumbs?”
“ I like that idea, and it is something he might do. Can you read this?” Dera drifted gracefully onto one of the books.
“Not really, although Rob did say that this one,” Galen tapped the book in front of him, “was a translation of the one you’re on. Not a good translation.”
“ Of course not,” Dera chuckled fondly.
Galen read the passage that was marked and dragged another book over, the whole time the need to go after his brother getting more and more desperate. He could just sense Rob through the bond, the tiniest whisper, fainter than usual, and what was there was beginning to make Galen frantic with worry. “What does this mean?” he asked, reading a paragraph for the fourth time.
“You think I’d know?” Flash asked sourly.
“How long have you been there?”
“Long enough to listen to you muttering about all kinds of shit, none of which made sense.”
“I need help, I don’t even know where to go. I think he was researching this here: ‘and they raged over the whole of the land, churning it beneath their feet, destroying as they moved. Several of their number rose up, and they were punished, they suffered the death that was not death, and they were placed within the living rock.’ I’m just not sure where that leads us.”
“Are things that are locked in rock things we really want to be looking for?”
“Since I think one of them is what has Rob, yes,” Galen said, his eyes straying over the page again.
“I don’t like it.”
“ I don’t either.”
“Thanks for the…” Galen stopped when his phone rang, he glanced at the caller ID and felt his heart speed up. “Rob!”
“Galen?” Rob sounded confused.
“Where are you?”
“Heading up Snoqualmie Pass.”
“Where?”
“I’m not at the summit, but I will be in a few. I don’t have long. I… I’ll… no, too soon… East, Galen, I’m hea…” The phone cut off abruptly.
Galen stood. “We need to get going. Rhiannon’s here?”
“Yeah, Greg too.”
“I don’t think they need to come.” He walked back to his room and opened the closet where he kept his weapons. He pulled out his bag—full of supplies, medical and magical—and his falcata. He didn’t know if he’d need it, but he preferred the bladed weapon to a gun, but that didn’t stop him from grabbing his Sig Sauer P226 9mm, and tucking it in his bag as well.
When he walked back into the living room, he stopped in front of the shelf on the west wall. The Emrys family Coat of Arms hung there, with a roster of names of Keepers back to the First Emrys thousands of years before. Most
“Thanks for asking.”
“Anytime.” Flash grinned. “So what?”
“We see what he was looking for.” Galen strode across the floor, heading towards the stairs to the apartment. As he reached the top, he heard an odd noise. “Dera!” he called. An angry croak came from down the hall. Sprinting through the living room, he discovered the door to the bathroom jammed closed, a chair wedged against the knob and the skeleton key that was always in the lock lying on the floor in the hallway. He quickly opened the door and both ravens swept out, croaking angrily, seemingly twice their usual size.
“ Where is he?” Dor demanded.
“I don’t know. He drove out of the parking lot.”
“ I go.” The raven dipped his head and was out the broken window before Galen could say another word.
Dera landed on his shoulder and gently butted his cheek. “Are you injured?”
“No.” He walked to the table where Rob had been sitting. There were still books open on the table, paper marking various spots. Galen bent closer to one page, then glanced at another. “Do you think he was trying to leave us clues?”
“ How?”
“I don’t know. When I healed him, it was there, so maybe he was trying to leave us breadcrumbs?”
“ I like that idea, and it is something he might do. Can you read this?” Dera drifted gracefully onto one of the books.
“Not really, although Rob did say that this one,” Galen tapped the book in front of him, “was a translation of the one you’re on. Not a good translation.”
“ Of course not,” Dera chuckled fondly.
Galen read the passage that was marked and dragged another book over, the whole time the need to go after his brother getting more and more desperate. He could just sense Rob through the bond, the tiniest whisper, fainter than usual, and what was there was beginning to make Galen frantic with worry. “What does this mean?” he asked, reading a paragraph for the fourth time.
“You think I’d know?” Flash asked sourly.
“How long have you been there?”
“Long enough to listen to you muttering about all kinds of shit, none of which made sense.”
“I need help, I don’t even know where to go. I think he was researching this here: ‘and they raged over the whole of the land, churning it beneath their feet, destroying as they moved. Several of their number rose up, and they were punished, they suffered the death that was not death, and they were placed within the living rock.’ I’m just not sure where that leads us.”
“Are things that are locked in rock things we really want to be looking for?”
“Since I think one of them is what has Rob, yes,” Galen said, his eyes straying over the page again.
“I don’t like it.”
“ I don’t either.”
“Thanks for the…” Galen stopped when his phone rang, he glanced at the caller ID and felt his heart speed up. “Rob!”
“Galen?” Rob sounded confused.
“Where are you?”
“Heading up Snoqualmie Pass.”
“Where?”
“I’m not at the summit, but I will be in a few. I don’t have long. I… I’ll… no, too soon… East, Galen, I’m hea…” The phone cut off abruptly.
Galen stood. “We need to get going. Rhiannon’s here?”
“Yeah, Greg too.”
“I don’t think they need to come.” He walked back to his room and opened the closet where he kept his weapons. He pulled out his bag—full of supplies, medical and magical—and his falcata. He didn’t know if he’d need it, but he preferred the bladed weapon to a gun, but that didn’t stop him from grabbing his Sig Sauer P226 9mm, and tucking it in his bag as well.
When he walked back into the living room, he stopped in front of the shelf on the west wall. The Emrys family Coat of Arms hung there, with a roster of names of Keepers back to the First Emrys thousands of years before. Most
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