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the Valle,”
William said angrily. “I still can’t believe they revived Exavior
after what he did.”
    “They don’t care. They
will do whatever they can to get their way.”
    “Well they won’t get
Emily. She’s ours now, and I plan on keeping her safe,” William
said, and took her hand.
    “How do you plan on
keeping us safe though?” Frederick asked. The Chief Enforcer had
just walked into her room.
    “I’m thinking on that. I
wonder what the Valle did.”
    “Ask her,” Frederick
suggested. “While she’s drugged up.”
    “Emily?” William said, and
touched her shoulder.
    She opened her eyes slightly.
    “Child… why did you not turn the Valle to
ash?”
    “The Valle?” she whispered.
    “Look at me,” William said. He was surprised
when he was able to immediately lock her eyes, “Why didn’t you turn
the Valle to ash?”
    Emily could hear him, his
voice was far off, but soft and flowing, “They have
Dain.”
    William frowned, “Did you see him?”
    “No”
    “Sleep, Child…” he said,
and turned back to the other Elders when she fell asleep. “Do you
think they still have the baby?”
    “It seems strange that the
Equites didn’t tell us the baby was missing also,” Aaron said.
“They yelled at us for the Valle having Emily, but said nothing
about the baby.”
    “So… maybe they lied to keep her from
turning them to ash?”
    “Perhaps”
    “Do we stoop to that level?” Reese
asked.
    “What are our other
options?” William asked, looking at the Council gathered in Emily’s
room.
    “None that I can see. We
can’t risk her turning the city to ash again.”
    William nodded and turned
back to her, “Let her sleep for now. Maybe when she wakes up,
she’ll be more alert.”
     
    ***
     
    “It’s disconcerting,” Kyle
said. “Over the first 7 days she was missing, there were 7 attacks,
one a day… now nothing?”
    “The Valle aren’t
answering, and I’m not picking anything up from Emily at all,”
Chevalier said, his eyes furious.
    “Seven attacks in 7 days…
if they attacked the Encala also, then the number could be a lot
higher,” Quinn said. “Maybe they overdid it and she’s
asleep?”
    “That’s what I’m afraid of.”
    “At the very least, let’s
send the baby to the Valle also,” Zohn said, irritated.
    Quinn glared at him, “He’s a baby and he
misses his mother.”
    “So send him over!”
    “No… we cannot send a heku baby to the
Valle.”
    Chevalier sighed, “I’ve
tried to get him to stop screaming. He won’t do it.”
    “Then take him to the island, let them
listen to it for a while.”
    “Stop it, Zohn! You aren’t
helping things,” Quinn hissed.
    “I can’t concentrate. It
hasn’t been quiet for two weeks.”
    “Deal with it. He’s a
baby.”
    “Dad?” Allen asked when he
opened the door behind the Council.
    Chevalier turned and sighed, “Let me have
him.”
    Allen hurried up the stairs and handed Dain
over to Chevalier. The baby looked into his Dad’s eyes and started
crying again. Kyle blurred away and returned with a bottle. The
entire palace fell silent when the 8-month-old began to eat.
    “Just keep a bottle in his mouth,” Zohn
growled.
     
    ***
     
    “William?” Emily called
out softly. She looked around the familiar Encala bedroom and sat
up slowly.
    William came in and smiled, “You called for
me, Dear?”
    “Why am I here?”
    “We rescued you from the Valle.”
    “Is Chevalier here?”
    “Well… no. The Equites don’t know you’re
here.”
    Emily frowned, “So the
Valle kidnapped me from the Equites, and you kidnapped me from the
Valle?”
    William chuckled, “Yes, I guess that sounds
right.”
    “Are you going to force me to ash entire
covens?”
    “No, we’re not.”
    Emily nodded slightly and looked around,
“Did you get Dain also?”
    “Yes, we did.”
    “Can I see him?”
    “No, we need to protect ourselves.”
    “Please, let us go. I
don’t feel well, and I just want to go home,” Emily