Heliopath’s World: Ildieu: Falcon: Kestrel’s Kidnap

[k_a_webb]

I really enjoy it when characters surprise me and this was something that I really wasn’t expecting when I started writing Falcon’s point of view.

No one knew. It was safer that way for both of them. Yet, by protecting Kestrel, Falcon had made her a target. Unfortunately that was part of the game he’d been playing since his father had decided it was time to move on. The same game his father, his grandfather and his great-grandfather had been playing, since the creation of the Black Hollow. Everyone saw him as someone who had taken the position his older brothers should have had, because they didn’t know why the Hollow had been created in the first place or that some mages from the outside had chosen to enter Ildieu long after it was created.

Falcon was the youngest son of someone who was immortal. The blood magic that had been used to create the Hollow, which had been brought in by his great-grandfather when he realised that the mages within the city knew very little about the magic they had inherited from their ancestors, but then that wasn’t a surprise. When the city was created they came to the conclusion that the best way to protect the world from them would be to remove all of their memories of who they had been, in the hope that by forgetting their pasts would mean that they’d forget how to use their magic. Only it wasn’t as simple as that.

As he sat in the study he still couldn’t think of as his Falcon tried to work out what his next step should be. Kestrel was in the Grey Gardens, which, strangely enough, was probably the safest place for her to be, and she’d be with Ash. If there was anyone that Falcon knew for certain he could trust with his sister, even though Ash didn’t know Kestrel was his sister, was his cousin. Ash also didn’t know that he’d been expected and done exactly what they thought he would do.

“You’re certain,” Lars said, their eyes meeting for a moment. “We leave Kess where she is.”

“I want her back, Lars, but Ash is going to tell her what she needs to know. I’ve been keeping things from her, because that was what Dad told me to do, even though there were times, more times than I ever believed possible, when I wanted to tell her everything, but I knew I couldn’t. She needs to feel alienated if she’s going to start working with him and that is the aim of everything that I’ve done, since the time I became the leader of the Hollow.” Falcon sighed. “Kess needs to be ready. Ash needs to be ready. Neither of them will be until they start working together and it has to happen before the mages attack.”

“How much time do we have?”

“Until the equinox. Fortunately my birthday is three days before that and I know Kess well enough to be sure that she’ll make a break for it on the same day, no matter how annoyed with me she is, because we’ve been alone for a long time now.” Falcon swallowed around the emotion that was blocking his throat. “Our brothers left, to follow the orders that Dad had given them, before Dad himself left, leaving behind the illusion of his body, so it looked like he had died. I don’t know where any of them are now, so all I can do is keep hoping that they’re alive. They promised me they’d be here in time for the equinox.”

Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.

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