Page 107 of Polestar
Ulla’s expression registered panic as the sound continued.
Yvan’s gaze focused on Antony’s dramatic entrance.
Adolf slipped out of the door, with no one but Ana noticing his departure.
The sound of thunder echoed between the thick rock of the mountain’s base and the stronghold’s stones.Growing steadily.
“Choppers!”Antony whooped gleefully.
Yvan and Ulla exchanged confused glances.
“Where’s Adolf?”Yvan demanded, moving around the table toward the door.
“I don’t know.Grab the human.Magnus is coming for her,” Ulla shouted.
“Yeah,” Antony said.“And he’s pissed.”
“You saw him?”Ana gasped.
“I was with him when he found his father.The King is dying, Ana.I think he’s going to rip these two apart when he finds them.”His eyes glittered as he looked straight at Yvan.“Especially him.”
“Why?”Ana asked, looking between Antony and Yvan, who stared back at him, color flushing his pale face.
“Who’s she talking to?”Ulla demanded.
“The dead human who can’t do anything to help her, or stop us.”
“Oh yeah?I know the shaman you killed is keeping the king alive, and he’d kick your ass himself for violating their sacred culture.”
“They killed the shaman?”Ana’s voice rose with her shock.
“Yvan, I told you to grab her; take her to the hall where we can display her when we catch Magnus,” Ulla commanded.
Yvan grasped Ana’s wrist, wrenching her forward.
“Ana, you have to escape.Bring a priest to the king’s chambers so they can reverse the spell that’s killing him before it’s too—.”
Yvan shouted several words in a language Ana couldn’t understand, swiping his hand through the air in Antony’s direction.
“Antony!”Ana screamed as he sailed through the air backwards, disappearing through the wall.
Yvan yanked on her arm.She resisted enough to draw back her free hand, and when he yanked again, she used the momentum to launch her fist into his face, cracking his nose.
Pain lanced through her knuckles and up her wrist, but she didn’t stop striking the much larger man, despite his rock-like face breaking her hand.
Grunting, he grabbed her other arm, and she went at him with her feet like the little hellcat that Magnus had accused her of being.
“Subdue her, now!”Ulla shouted.
Yvan barked a few words as his clammy palm clamped on her forehead.
Ana collapsed as the world went white.
Adolfdrovethesnowmobilehard, pushing its engine as fast as it would go, as he raced back toward his compound at the northern edge of Barentia.
“No, no, no!”He screamed as a heavy transport helicopter buzzed overhead.
GPSA.
