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Authors: Stephen Allan
Kastori Devastations (The Kastori Chronicles Book 2) (38 page)
To Typhos’ surprise, his mother never once stopped him. She seemed accepting—
almost embracing—
of her fate.
“I knew this was coming,” Erda said without pleading. “As soon as I sensed that you had killed Ramadus, I knew that I had lost you. There is nothing that I can do to bring back the cheerful boy that I still love and know is in you somewhere. The man I look at now is not my son, but the body of my son inhabited by a dark spirit. I acknowledge that we, as a council, and I, as your mother, failed to help. I always thought you would turn into a great man. But I did not do my part.”
Typhos bit his lip as he raised the sword but, without thinking about it, took two steps backward.
“Typhos, understand, I have failed you in many ways. Many, many ways. But if I had not gone to Monda, I would have failed others in even worse ways. Someone had to suffer, and I believed you would best handle it.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?!” Typhos spat.
“You know you’re not my only son. You know that if I had raised him here, away from his father and his home—”
“Oh, I know, Erda, I most certainly know,” Typhos growled. “And I’m going to make a promise that I know I will keep. I will kill the other son. I don’t know when. But I will. I am your only son. Not the offspring of some human.”
“You wouldn’t dare!” Erda cried, the most emotional she had gotten.
“Watch me,” Typhos sneered. “And Monda’s going to face just as much death as the boy is.”
Trick is finding that boy. I can’t sense humans like I can sense Kastori.
But he’s got some Kastori blood in him.
As long as it’s not repressed.
You know killing him won’t really help.
No. It will. It has to!
“Why?!? Typhos, stop! Please! I am begging you! End the death, end the madness!”
“End it?” Typhos said with a sinister laugh. “OK, fine. I’ll end it.”
He retook his two steps forward and held the blade aloft.
“Right after I kill you.”
He swung his sword down.
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Bibliography
~~The Kastori Chronicles~~
Kastori Revelations
(March 2016)
Kastori Devastations
(May 2016)
Kastori Tribulations
(July 2016)
Kastori Restorations (Coming Soon)
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Text copyright © 2016 by Stephen Allan
Cover art copyright © 2016 by Mirela Barbu
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