Page 25 of Forgotten Arcane

“I think that’s probably enough to absorb for today,” Evander says before anyone can launch into the explanation on the case and the Blue Fucker, and Dimitri, and everything else that goes along with that.

“Yeah, I think that’s probably a good call,” Coen agrees, with a smile. “There’s already a lot to wrap my head around.”

“We can explain more of that during the week. We’ve got time before we have to go back to HID and work again,” Reed points out.

“Agreed,” I say. I really will be surprised if we last the whole week.

I think after a couple of days of rest, we’ll be itching to get back on the hybrid case and figure out for sure if the Blue Fucker is linked to HID, even though we are all pretty sure that he is.

“Let’s just enjoy the food, and sleeping in our own damn beds tonight,” River points out. His expression becomes mischievous as he adds, “And being able to be naked. Wearing clothes all the time has sucked.”

Coen chuckles, “I did wonder how you were coping with that.”

River sighs dramatically and shakes his head slowly from side to side, “Not good, man, it was hell.”

As usual, River’s theatrics have us all laughing.

“We can do some research while we’re at home,” Griff suggests, and then adds with a huge smile, “we also need to get Neith flying.”

Neith grins and starts wriggling on her seat excitedly like a puppy, and making me and the others smile at how fucking adorable she looks.

“I can’t wait. Can we do that tomorrow?”

Griff nods, “Yeah, I don’t see why not.”

“Awesome,” Neith grins.

“Before we switch the conversation away from everything that we have to deal with, I wanted to talk about Kyrous,” River says, becoming serious.

“Why do I feel like you know who Kyrous is?” Coen asks, catching on far more quickly than most people would. He frowns as he continues, “And why he wasn’t there? To be honest, that whole thing really confuses me, especially since even Ed said that it’s never happened before.”

Reed rolls his eyes, “That was definitely something that we should have included in the main explanation.”

“Yep,” Neith agrees with a smile, as she takes another huge bite of pizza. “It’s a pretty vital piece of information.”

“So, Kyrous is the leader of Trieneliea’s armies, and trained the Bonded Warrior teams that had gone through the Choosing. He was the only supernatural to ever go through the Choosing and not receive a team,” Raiden explains.

“Well, we know that’s not true anymore, he did receive a team, it was us,” I point out.

“Yeah, that’s true,” Raiden agrees.

“Oh shit, do you think that the scroll had our names on it when he won?” Neith asks.

I nod, “Yeah, I would assume so. That must have been really confusing.”

“Not to mention that was possibly nearly a hundred years ago. Trieneliea’s been shut for thirty-odd years, and Kyrous was training theWarrior Bonded teams, and the commander of Trieneliea’s armies before that,” Raiden points out. As usual, remembering things that we had all forgotten.

“Wow,” Neith mutters, as sadness clouds her expression.

“Is he still in Trieneliea then? Or did he get out with everyone else?” Coen asks. “I wonder if he already knows. If he watched the Choosing, then he could have recognized our names?”

“That’s a really good theory, but Kyrous is dead,” Evander says with a wince.

“He went on a scouting mission with a team during the war in Trieneliea, and they got attacked, and Kyrous was taken. Sully said that there was no way that he could have survived, but Draith and Ty went looking for him just in case, and they never found his body,” Reed carries on the explanation.

“Whoa,” Coen mutters and then frowns. “Wait, Ty?”

Neith nods, “Yeah, he was Kyrous’ second in command.”

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