Eric burst into the barn in time to see his quarry wink out of existence. Behind him, his men fanned out into the building to check for people, but Eric knew it was pointless now. He scowled.
Josefine came to stand beside him, slapping the coil of rope in her hand against her long skirts, her dark eyes flashing. "Where did they go?"
"Blinked. They could be anywhere in England." He kicked at some straw in frustration. Travel by chariot—the travelling device these creatures used—was untraceable, and limited only by the energy of the device and the skill of the user. With a powerful enough chariot, you could walk across the world in a single step. The lumasi woman couldn't have had a very big one, but it had been big enough.
"The Master's not going to be happy about this," his daughter said with a worried expression.
She was right. For a moment, Eric considered not mentioning it to his superiors, but discarded the idea immediately. As dangerous as it would be to tell the Master, it would be more dangerous if he discovered it later on his own. The key was to control how the Master found out.
Eric spied his discarded belt and picked it up, then tugged both ends with a decisive snap.
"Pack up. We're going to Bristol."
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Novela JuvenilShe was raised to save her people-as long as she doesn't go crazy and kill them all first. Calandra is the most powerful undine Healer to be born on Sirenia for three millennia. She has been raised to be the saviour of her people, the only one with...
