Daughter of the Twin Moons by Holly Bargo EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author:Holly Bargo
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Thelan, captain of the palace guard, led three of his most trusted
warriors through the dim, oily interior of a building where the
horseless chariots of humans waited patiently for their owners’
commands. He could hear their thoughts: What is this place? What are
those hulking metal beasts? In all his seventy thousand years, Thelan never
thought to be grateful for such a distasteful environment as the humans built
themselves. But it was there the oracle had sent him, there he would find his
fate.
They heard a mechanical noise, the din of human voices discussing
inconsequential things in their rough, rude tongue.
A box opened and disgorged its passengers. Thelan had ridden in one
during one of his intelligence-gathering sorties. It was called an elevator.
He wasn’t entirely sure how it worked, but the mechanism performed with
admirable efficiency. Humans, for all their shortsightedness and crudity,
exhibited amazing ingenuity.
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There she is, he alerted his men, communicating with them mind to
mind across the common path. They followed the direction of his gaze and
found themselves puzzled. The woman identified was no beauty among
humankind. She bore a weary expression on her aged face and wore
unflattering garb. You must be mistaken, Captain, his lieutenant protested.
Surely, the oracle would not burden you with an old woman.
Thelan, too, had been surprised by the woman revealed by the oracle;
however, he could not argue. One only argued with the oracle at great peril.
The oracle identified this female and provided the coordinates to secure
her.
The other three warriors did nothing so crass as shake their heads with
disbelief, but he could feel their tamped-down incredulity.
You have the simulacrum? he confirmed.
Aye, his lieutenant replied.
We’ll need a few drops of her blood to activate the decoy.
The three warriors nodded.
The woman walked toward one of the shiny metal carriages parked in a
somewhat darker corner of the parking garage than most of the other
vehicles. Emerging from their concealment within a separate plane of
existence, the four warriors surged forward and surrounded her. The
abduction took all of three seconds. A silver blade pricked her arm which
bled several drops onto the golem. The lieutenant tossed the activated
simulacrum into the vehicle. It twitched and grew and transformed until a
perfect facsimile of the woman rested unmoving in the driver’s seat.
“Sleep,” Thelan commanded, exerting his will upon her unprepared and
unprotected mind. The woman slumped in his arms. He spat a quick spell
that transferred the unattractive garments she wore to the golem. In
deference to his mate’s modesty, one of Thelan’s guard shook out a blanket
and wrapped it around her aged, pudgy body.
Remind me never to seek the oracle’s assistance in procuring a mate,
one of the other warriors commented acidly as Thelan hoisted the
unconscious woman in his arms. His captain threw him a dark look that
promised retribution sooner rather than later.
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