Sword of the Gods: Agents of Ki (Sword of the Gods Saga) Read Online Free PDF

stave off the rising winter flood. The young woman's spirit light glowed pink with happiness the further they got from the village. They crossed a stone cairn which marked the outermost ring of fields the Assurians claimed as their own.
    Ninsianna hesitated. They had journeyed beyond the point which Siamek and the other warriors patrolled.
    "How much further, Shahla?"
    A shadow stepped out from behind a rock. At first Ninsianna thought it was her husband, impossibly tall and dressed in the same strange foreign outfit Mikhail called a uniform, his raven-black hair silhouetted against the setting sun. The illusion was only momentary as she realized the man was olive-skinned and did not possess a pair of wings.
    "Jamin?" Ninsianna squeaked with surprise. Shock gave way to fear as she realized the Chief's disgraced son had defied his banishment to traverse onto Assurian land. She yanked her bow over her head and tried to reach for an arrow to shoot him, but Jamin clenched her wrist and wrenched the weapon out of her hand.
    "How could you?" Ninsianna shrieked at Shahla. "I thought he was your enemy?"
    "Stop fighting me," Jamin hissed. "You'll only make things worse."
    "Mikhail will smite you for daring to lay a hand upon me," Ninsianna fought him. "Let … me …. go!"
    Jamin imprisoned her against his body, a wall of muscle, not as powerful as Mikhail, but the most powerful man in all of Ubaid territory. Why had Shahla led her here? To the man who had beaten her and caused her to miscarry her baby?
    A throb of power, so palpable it shuddered through her too-sensitive sixth sense the way a mortal might hear a rumble of thunder, caused her to look up. A pair of white wings blotted out the dying rays of the setting sun. The air filled with the rustle of feathers as the Angelic slid down from the sky, so pale and beautiful that for a moment it looked as though he was the sunlight, the vision that for the past year had inhabited her nightmares.
    The Evil One!
    "Let me go!" Ninsianna tugged frantically against Jamin's grip. Her heart pounded in her throat as memory of her horrific vision screamed for every muscle to run.
    The Evil One artfully draped his wings across his back, as graceful as a lily unfolding in the sun, and moved towards her like a stalking lion, tall, graceful, a predator even amongst other predators. He was a bit less muscular than her husband, but tall and perfectly formed, with pale skin, white-blonde hair, chiseled features, and the most beautiful silver eyes she had ever seen; but beneath those eyes, she could see his spirit-light burned with fire.
    Shahla ran up to the Evil One and threw herself into his arms.
    "You have done well, my beautiful bride," the Evil One said to Shahla. He flashed a smile which showcased perfectly straight teeth. He glanced up and made eye contact with Ninsianna. Beneath his false smile she could see the echo of fangs.
    'Run, run, run, run…' Ninsianna thought frantically to herself, but her body refused to obey.
    The Evil One nuzzled Shahla's neck and whispered into her ear.
    "Anything!" Shahla's face glowed radiantly happy. "And then you will take me to see the stars?"
    Ninsianna stared into the Evil One's spirit light to search for an advantage. Although he kissed Shahla the way one might greet their beloved, his piss-puke-putrid green darkness swirled around the disturbed young woman and fed upon her illness like a leech. What Shahla perceived as warmth would soon consume her!
    The Evil One pulled the promiscuous young woman against his tall, lean frame and thrust his pelvis against her belly in a gesture which could only be interpreted as a promise of things to come. Even from here Ninsianna could see the Evil One sported an erection that would put even her husband to shame. Shahla giggled.
    "Soon." The Evil One stared straight at Ninsianna as he caressed Shahla's chin between his thumb and forefinger. "Soon I shall replace the one that this one's husband stole from you. But