Tree Of Souls (Transfusion Saga #6) - Stephanie Hudson Page 0,114

so he continued on for me.

“The witch, she didn’t know what would happen, for if she did then she wouldn’t have been ready as I was, as I merely remember rising through the ground, something I believed for years to be nothing more than dreams of warped history, twisted into something it was not. Now I know I was not only wrong, but I believe that those dreams were preparing me for this moment…so I would be ready and know what to do.” I thought on what he was saying and asked myself the same thing, if the dreams of him and the tree were somehow to prepare me?

“What did happen when I fell?”

“My blood combined with yours must have been the key and she knew it, which is why…”

“I didn’t really have to do anything but bleed under the tree…yeah okay, gotcha…so what now?” I asked looking back up at the rock formation that potentially we could climb, but there didn’t exactly look like there was a handy trap door up there and even if there was, the welcome party wasn’t of our choosing.

“I suggest we see where it takes us, look over to the far side, there seems to be a doorway.” Lucius nodded to a place too far away for me to see and my look said it all as he granted me a coy grin and said,

“Trust me, human, it’s there.” I elbowed him in the ribs for the comment, making him smirk. Then he took my hand and we started to cross the huge cave.

“Did you notice the rogues, how they all looked different?” I asked making him nod, now looking bleak when he said,

“She is more powerful than I thought possible in a witch.”

“What did she do to them?” I asked, hating that so far, she seemed impossible to beat.

“I don’t know how, but she has taken control over them completely, it is worse than we first imagined.”

“Oh great, more good news,” I grumbled in annoyance.

“Take some comfort in this, for if her plan has been to get down here all along, then she must be pissed now seeing as that didn’t happen. So, at the very least we had prevented what I assume to be the…”

“Grand Finale?” I finished off for him.

“Yes, or the part where she tries to fuck up the whole world by ruling over Vampires.” I shivered at the thought and forced myself to ask,

“You really think that’s her master plan…not to just kill them all?”

“After seeing how she has reduced the rogues to nothing more than mindless drones, then I am starting to lean heavily towards that conclusion, yes,” he said as he helped guide me over some of the bigger rocks. And as we got closer to the other side, I could see now what his vampire eyesight could see before mine.

There was an opening that looked to be man-made, but the details had long ago been lost due to the sides being consumed by the ocean of roots from above. It was almost like they were flowing down in waves, with the thicker roots entwined and coiled with the thinner vines. They all cascaded into the entrance now as if a vortex had sucked them through.

“Well, this looks welcoming,” I commented dryly, making Lucius grip my hand tighter in his as we passed through the doorway which looked at least ten feet tall. Then, just as the darkness started to consume our senses, flames erupted all around us as torches lit in carved holes. These were situated in the rock walls and each was framed by the root system, like little windows. The hallway was also the same height as the door, with the flickering light being closer to the root covered arched ceiling.

We continued down, both tense and ready for anything…however, like most things, when that ‘anything’ happened, neither of us was prepared for it. As the moment we walked through the opening at the end, something seemed to slam in between us both, forcing us apart and causing us to separate. I fell backwards landing on my ass with a grunt of pain that jarred my bones and I rose to my elbow, first having to shake my head to get my mind back into gear.

“Wh…what happened?” I asked, coughing first as the loose dirt had been kicked up around me from the compacted earth on the ground. I looked up to find Lucius on the ground which in itself set me into panic. So,