Ferus : Book 6 of the Heku Series Read Online Free PDF

immediately.”
    “Or what? You’ll make me
attack my friends again?” she yelled, and kicked backwards,
displacing his knee. Sotomar let go of her and fell back against
the wall, growling. The room suddenly filled with Imperial Guards,
and two of them tackled Emily and pinned her against the
floor.
    Emily screamed angrily and
fought against them. The Council came into the room and watched her
with wide eyes.
    “Are you ok, Elder?” the Chief of Defense
asked.
    “I’m fine. She has quite
the temper,” Sotomar said, and straightened his shirt.
    Elder Ryan knelt down
beside her, “Calm down.”
    Emily tried to kick him,
but another Imperial Guard caught her leg before it connected with
his jaw.
    Exavior blurred to her
side and knelt down, his voice was angry, “Stop it right now or
you’ll be punished.”
    She froze, her eyes wide
as she looked at him. The Imperial Guards were still holding her
firmly to the floor. As she watched him, it became hard to breathe
and she started to panic.
    “Exavior, get out,”
Sotomar growled.
    Exavior reached over and
took her face painfully in his hand, “Did you hear me?”
    She nodded slightly, and
Sotomar pushed Exavior from the room. The guards let go of her and
she stayed on the floor while they left and shut the door, leaving
her alone in the foreign bedroom.
    “Exavior, she’s not to be
harmed,” Sotomar yelled when they got to the council
chambers.
    “She’s young and needs to
learn obedience,” Exavior said, and sat down.
    “Not through discipline or punishment.”
    “It’s the only way. She’s
stubborn and defiant.”
    “I don’t care. I don’t
want her hurt.”
    “Give it time. You’ll see
what I do,” Exavior explained, and turned to the trial
area.
    Emily stayed on the wooden
floor and looked up at the ceiling. She calmed the terror that grew
when Exavior threatened her, and finally was able to breathe
normally. The image filled her mind of the Powan guards smiling at
her and letting her into the coven. She shut her eyes tightly as
she remembered turning them all to ash almost instantly, unable to
stop herself.
    She stayed in her room for three days,
refusing to talk to anyone, the trays of food left untouched. She
never moved from the floor and only turned away from the ceiling
when someone entered the room to talk to her.
    On the evening of the third day, Sotomar
came into the room and sat down on the floor beside her, “You have
us worried.”
    Emily watched him, unmoving.
    “I know what you’re doing,
and we can’t allow you to wither away.”
    She turned back to the
ceiling to count the holes in the tile again.
    Sotomar sighed, “So here’s the deal. We’re
going to only feed Dain when you eat, so if you decide to starve
yourself, you are also starving your son.”
    Emily looked over at him and glared.
    “I want you to know, also,
that we will not allow Exavior to punish you. That’s a
promise.”
    Sotomar waited for Emily
to respond, and when she didn’t, he stood up and looked around the
room, “I’ll have another tray brought up. Dain should be hungry
soon, so I suggest you eat.”
    Emily watched him leave
and then turned back to the ceiling. When a tray of food was
brought up, she waited until the servant left before crawling up
from the floor to eat. Her mind was busy with thoughts of how to
escape, but any option she had would leave the baby alone with the
Valle, alone with Exavior.
    “She ate some,” the
Imperial Guard told the Valle Council.
    “Some?” Sotomar asked.
    “Yes, some.”
    Ryan sighed, “Very well, let her be at that
for now. We need to decide on an Encala target.”
    “It’ll be harder. They
aren’t going to let her walk in,” Exavior said, studying a book of
known Encala covens.
    “How close does she need to be?” the Chief
Enforcer asked.
    “Not very. She was able to
ash our entire city from inside of this room,” Sotomar
explained.
    “Call Rasmussen, we will
do it tonight. I suggest the Encala’s