Silverblood Demons (Daughters of Darkness Book 1) by Turhan Page B

forest.
    “This is where I watched the meeting last time,” Amber whispered. “But the group would have to walk right past us to get to the clearing, let’s go over to the far side.” My daughter is a smart kid. We followed her lead as she found the perfect spot to watch the impending assembly of miscreants.
    Our timing was impeccable, the procession of Tutellas, a couple of small winged creatures and Le Femme Fatale Ophelexa didn’t disappoint us, they arrived right on cue and quickly assembled themselves.
    “SILENCE!” She didn’t have to repeat herself. Ophelexa walked in and out, around the group followed closely by the two small, winged creatures, one was muscular and the other hairy, maybe they’re bodyguards?
    “One of your sisters is dead! Murdered in her sleep at the hands of, of, I don’t know who! But I swear on the head of my sister Sophelexa,” Reaching inside her robe Ophelexa pulled out the severed head of the demon we had killed back at the Yurt. “She will not have died in vain!”
    The two winged bodyguards were circling around the group sniffing them as though they were looking for a traitor, or clues, or us.
    “Does anyone here have any idea who or what is responsible for my sister’s death?” One of the Tutellas cautiously raised her hand. “Speak!” No sooner had Ophelexa spoken than the bodyguards were by the Tutella, the hairy one hovered above her and the muscular one was to her front.
    “The silk rope that was tied around Madame Tutella was the rope we found in the tree outside the wall here, we must have been followed, probably by Amber, she was always up to no good. Here’s the rope.”
    The muscular bodyguard sniffed the rope then stuck its nose in the air, I quickly looked to see if I still had my rawhide ring on, the one that could mask my smell, I did, Elektra did too and Sin-dy didn’t need one. Looking over at Amber I realized we had made a huge mistake. We should have taken Kira’s ring before we left but it was too late now.
    Elektra sensed my anxiety and reached out to hold Amber’s hand, I did the same hoping that somehow we could mask Amber’s scent.
    “It’s almost time to gather all the girls of Sarturas!” Ophelexa screamed. “If the perpetrators can kill my sister, then even Sarine isn’t safe until we find them!”
    Her yelling, was riling up her bodyguards, they started flying around bumping into the Tutellas, flapping their wings and generally making a nuisance of themselves.
    “After tomorrow, no one can stop us,” Ophelexa said.
    We all thought the same thing as we started to look at each other. Ophelexa said “a fter tomorrow,” well what about before tomorrow .
    “All of the remaining dissenters to the plan and especially their leader, Qirvana,” Ophelexa yelled. “I hate even saying her name! Will be summoned to their final audience with Sarine and they will be squashed like this!” She reached out and grabbed the hairy bodyguard that was flying directly above and in her fury thrust her hand into its skull and using it like a ball she pounded it into the ground.
    Hairy winced, its eyes popped and finally its brains splattered all over the Tutellas in the front row. Muscular circled around to the back row and hid from sight.
    Finally, a crack in the ‘plan’ If we could reach Qirvana and some of the dissenting demons and let them know of Sarine’s plan to dispose of them all and any chance they had of saving their own children, then now was the time to do so. After tomorrow it would be too late.
    Muscular hovered back up, sniffing. It was looking in our direction, maybe we had grabbed Amber’s hand too late, I don’t know but this wasn’t looking good.
    Ophelexa noticed Muscular’s reaction and swiftly spun around, “GO!” she screamed, “NOW!”
    Muscular sped toward us as Ophelexa drew her sword, spinning her tail in such a way as to raise herself higher so she could see past the shrubs we were hidden behind. Her triple colored