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endure the aftermath
alone.”
    Sotomar stood up and
sighed before leaving. He blurred into the council chambers, “She’s
very ill, we need to stop. She doesn’t know where she is or who we
are.”
    “Why stop now? The other
factions are running scared,” the Chief Investigator said
proudly.
    “We stop because she’s ill.”
    “I agree with Exavior.
She’s looking for sympathy… There’s nothing wrong with her, and I
fully plan on sending her out to Potomac Coven this
evening.”
    “That young child is
suffering. We need to stop.”
    “I say keep going,”
Exavior told them, and turned to Ryan. “Your vote?”
    Ryan sighed and nodded,
“Hit Potomac tonight. See what happens.”
    Four hours later, Emily
stumbled into the Potomac Coven, home to 377 Encala. She braced
against the wall, too weak to stand on her own. One heku stood
behind her, and ordered her to move further into the coven. She
moved without question, and without thought, until she stood in the
center of the compound.
    “Turn them all to ash,” the heku
whispered.
    Emily nodded and turned to
the heku as they ran away from her. She saw a swarm of red caped
heku blur toward her as she began the assault. Soft hands gripped
her as a cloth was held over her nose. Blackness engulfed her and
she welcomed it.
     
    ***
     
    “Emily?” William asked
softly, and then touched her forehead. She was still running a high
fever, “Shouldn’t she be awake?”
    “I don’t know, I’ve never seen this,” the
Encala doctor said, watching her. He took her blood pressure and
checked her eyes again, “Unless we call the Equites, we’ll have to
guess. Right now my instinct is to wait and see if her eyes clear
up.”
    “We can’t call the
Equites. They don’t know we have her,” Encala Elder Aaron
explained.
    The doctor nodded, “You said she’s taken out
how many of our covens in the past week?”
    “Six, entirely wiped out.
So if we factor in the same numbers for the Equites… then she’s
turned no less than 3,000 heku to ash this week alone… that’s if
the Equites suffered the same losses we have,” William
said.
    “If we notify the Equites
and return her,” Elder Reese said, deep in thought, “We could
realign ourselves with them and combine our efforts to pay the
Valle back.”
    “I’m not ready to side
ourselves with the Equites just yet. Think how powerful we can be
with the Winchester under our command,” William said. “However, we
don’t know why she didn’t turn the Valle to ash, so we also run the
risk of her wiping out our city.”
    “There is a way to make us
immune to her abilities. I just don’t know what it is,” Aaron told
them.
    “Let’s watch her until she
wakes up and see how it goes,” William suggested. “Make sure she
doesn’t leave her room without guards, and have her checked on
every 15 minutes. I want to know if she wakes up.”
    “Yes, Elder,” one of the
guards said, and headed off to give orders.
    The Encala watched over Emily for five days
before she finally began to wake up. The Elders were summoned early
in the morning to her bedside when the guards heard her stir.
    “Emily?” William asked, sitting down on the
bed beside her.
    Emily frowned, her eyes were still shut,
“William?”
    He smiled, “Yes, you’re with the Encala
now.”
    “Did Keith join the Encala?” she asked, her
words slurred.
    “I don’t know a Keith,
Dear,” William said, and glanced at the doctor. “Do you know where
you are?”
    Emily looked up at him,
and he was shocked to see the whites of her eyes were still
blood-red, “Yes, I’m with the Ferus.”
    “No, Child, you are with the Encala… how is
your head?”
    She pressed her palms into her eyes, “I
can’t think.”
    William nodded to the
doctor. He quickly gave her an injection of pain medication and she
settled back down in bed.
    “Those monsters,” Reese
growled. “They used her like a mindless weapon and almost killed
her doing it.”
    “Leave it to