Page 325 of Seer Prophet

“I did it,” Terian told me, jerking my eyes towards him.

Staring at him, I frowned. “You dropped the shield for us? The security barrier over Dubai?”

He smiled, nodding. “I did it. It was me.”

When I continued to stare at him, puzzled, he gestured gracefully towards the seers and humans in the cages.

“It seemed faster, sister,” he said politely. “It is faster, yes?”

That time, I finally did laugh.

Balidor gave Chandre an ETA of nine minutes.

After conferring with Chinja, Jax, Holo, Surli and Stanley, we decided to split our team anyway, to protect the List seers and humans. We’d send the wounded out and most of the Listers with Balidor, while the rest of us would return to land to draw off any pursuit or military action by border security. I would lead the land team, since I could use my light to draw them to us the easiest, especially inside the security perimeter.

Our goal would be to make our way to a secondary gate on the landlocked side?the same gate where Wreg, Jon and the others waited, ready to lead us across the sand dunes to where we could get an air pickup by one of the carrier’s Chinooks.

Hopefully.

According to Chandre, Balidor advised us we shouldn’t wait. He thought the construct may have been severely weakened without Menlim there to prop it up, and wanted us out before that changed. He definitely wanted us out before they gathered their forces to retaliate.

Which was perfectly fine with me.

I just needed to make one stop first.

I left most of them on the dock, behind the boathouse-slash-warehouse to wait for Balidor, so they could signal our people to shore.

Surli and Stanley had instructions to start loading the wounded and the civilian-types among the human and seer Listers while I went looking for Feigran.

Chinja, Chandre, Holo, Jax and Terian came with me.

I stopped only long enough to switch out my high heels for boots from a female Dreng officer I’d killed?trying really hard not to think too hard about what I was doing while I was actually doing it.

We left through a side exit Chandre showed us and moved quickly across the man-made field, making a straight line for the plantation-style house we’d passed on our way in.

We made it there in a matter of minutes.

Chandre, Jax and Chinja entered the fenced-in pool area first, rifles up and aimed at guests who screamed when they saw them, fleeing into the field and the house, clutching towels as they knocked over lounge chairs in their haste to get out of the way.

Holo, Terian and I looked for Feigran.

We found him seconds later.

He sat in the bubbling hot tub, unfazed by the screaming and commotion from the nearby pool. He stared up at the stars, a tropical drink clutched in one hand. He only lowered his chin to look at all of us after Chandre and the others rejoined us, and we’d clustered all the way around the edges of the steaming, jet-filled water.

Seeing me there, among the other faces, he broke out in a face-splitting grin, relief pouring out of his light, even as he let go of the drink, not seeming to notice when it disappeared under the surface of the frothing water.

Shaking my head at the expression there, I clicked under my breath.

Even so, I couldn’t help it.

I grinned back at him.

It was Feigran. What else could I do?

Chapter62

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