Second Breath Academy 2: How To Kill A Shadow (A Necromancer Academy)
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Kati’s stomach knotted, fear twisting her as she remembered the oppressive feeling of LaVoire’s power, but she nodded. “I know.”
“You must love him a lot,” Alexandra said quietly.
“Yeah,” Kati replied, swallowing hard. “We need to get back to the academy.”
At least she’d stopped firing ice spears from her palms, so she wouldn’t have to explain that to anyone.
Dolly? Freddie?
Here, Freddie replied, slithering out from behind a bush. Alexandra startled away but Kati stopped her with a hand on her arm.
“He’s my familiar.”
“I thought your familiar was a dog.” Alexandra frowned, but she calmed.
“Yeah.” Kati shrugged listlessly, all her fight and energy gone. Or maybe one of the wraiths had managed to suck some power from her. “I’ve got two.”
“Katriona Wilson, don’t move!” a high female voice said from the tree line behind Kati.
Automatically, stupidly, Kati spun to face the speaker, and she jolted as a pure white spell slammed into her chest.
“Oh for fuck’s sake,” Alexandra spat, edging closer to Kati. “She had nothing to do with this. You’re supposed to be here to help us.”
The woman—icy haired, short, but with a powerful HBIC aura to her—spared Chen a dismissing look. Kati froze, and not just because the spell forced her immobile. This was the head of the gentry, the woman who ran the whole supernatural law enforcement. She was also the mother of Colen Greensmith, who’d died when Lady LaVoire escaped the underworld. Not that Mercy knew that. No, to her, her precious boy had been killed by Theo Wilson, dark lord extraordinaire. And Kati, her mum, her dad, her gran, and her gran’s pet budgerigar, were all just as guilty.
She knew what was coming before Mercy even opened her mouth, a team of gentry clad in black and silver spreading out around them. “Katriona Wilson, you are under arrest for destruction of public property, the murder of Marigold Archer, and fraternising and assisting the woman known as Lady LaVoire.”
“She didn’t do it, you fuckwit,” Alexandra snarled. “I saw the whole thing, alright? I was on patrol, ask Mrs Balham, she gave me the position. Kati didn’t help Lady LaVoire. She tried to stop her.”
Alexandra hadn’t been there. But Kati didn’t let that show on her face. For whatever reason, Chen was covering for her.
“We’ll see,” Mercy replied, her mouth pressed into a thin line. “Detain her,” she commanded the gentry, and Kati was unable to resist as she was surrounded by tactical vests, extra-powerful wands, and restraining spells.
Handcuffs snapped around her wrists and Kati gnashed her teeth, the only resistance she could make.
“I’m coming with you,” Alexandra snarled as the gentry hauled Kati over to Mercy. “You’ll want to take my statement.”
Mercy Greensmith nodded absently. Kati doubted she’d take Alexandra’s statement. She had exactly what she wanted: someone to pin all the terrible things that had happened at SBA on. Someone to take the blame for her son’s death.
Dolly, Freddie, I need you to talk to Alexandra.
As you command, Freddie replied, his voice even more sombre than usual.
Tell her to go to Hawkness, tell her everything that happened. Tell her to get Iain away from his aunt. They can’t abandon him. They can’t. If they do, Lady LaVoire will drain his magic and use it to restore her to her real body and to her full power. And don’t trust Juneau.
We’ll make sure they don’t forget about him, Kit-Kat, Dolly replied, her sweet voice bleak.
Don’t call me Kit-Kat, Kati replied weakly as the gentry hauled her across SBA grounds by her bound arms.
Kati swallowed hard, her heart beating a mile a minute.
She was going to be thrown into Crestfall Prison and left to rot.
And she was innocent.
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