Free Kasadya Hellhound Twisted by Karen Swart

tipsy ride to touching a ball thingy that spins faster than a rocket … hell, welcome back, Kas. Not showing them they had the upper hand, I walked over to the ball nodding for Max and Abby to move out of my way. Okay, just touch the damn thing, Kas, and get it over with. The sooner the better, then you can go knock the living hell out of someone.
     
    Reaching out slowly, I gently placed my fingertips on it. I expected a lot, but what slammed into my brain had my jaw dropping open. I could hear fallen talking, giving orders, and reporting back to others. Vulcan’s voice popped up and he was telling Maia about a little girl that needs some attention. Wow, this is freaking awesome!
     
    “How is this possible?” I asked, looking at Chax and lifting my hand from the ball.
     
    “It acts like human radio waves. The moment you touched her, something on you was synchronized with her. You are now able to use that and communicate with any other fallen at any given time,” Chax replied, leaning against the wall like all of this was old news. Oh yeah I forgot, for him it is. I turned to look at Abby, who was shying away from everyone again. This young girl created this? Double wow.
     
    “All right, my turn. I also want to find out what has you guys so stunned,” Ryan said, moving forward towards the ball followed by a smiling Ben. I watched as they placed their hands on it and saw their reaction.
     
    “How would I know what was synchronized with the ball?” I asked Chax, still looking at the two school boy’s enjoying themselves.
     
    “She chooses objects like necklaces, bracelets, and other more personal yet mineral based objects. It would seem that she prefers to work with metal based objects to amplify her waves,” Chax explained, looking over at everyone there.
     
    I reached for my necklace and touched it, immediately more fallen voices were received in my brain. “We also use it to synchronize our shifting locations, or to move info between the groups. We can communicate with each other without saying a word to one another,” he continued. Well that can come in handy, especially if you’re sneaking up on a few demons.
     
    “All right, let’s get to the arena and start our training,” Chax blurted out, having me and the other new guys stepping back with speed. Oh no, I’m not ready for the fun ride back again. Seeing our reluctance to fall in and get to the arena, he shook his head and started to return to the gate we used to get here. “It should be easier this time around. Come on, time is wasting,” he shouted, halfway to the gate. Looking at Max and the rest I could see I was not the only one so not ready for this again.
     
    “Look at it this way, Kas, it doesn’t get any better than this,” Nanini said, jumping away to catch up with Chax.
     
    “Come on guys, let’s get this over with,” Lotan said, gesturing for us to get a move on. Damn no escaping this. I hate this fallen technology crappy travel thingy.
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
     
                               
     
     
    C hapter 5
     
     
     
     
     
    And of course we were back on our butts when we landed at Chax’s home. Sitting, hugging my head between my legs, I tried to regain my sober mind. “Why couldn’t we just shift to this ball thing?” I whined, my stomach doing a flip over.
     
    “Corra is protected against any shift, demon and fallen included. The only way of getting to her is by using this gate,” Chax replied, sitting down on a bench and looking at us sprawled all over the gate circle.
     
    “Oh, but it still sucks,” I continued on. Complaining seems to be the right thing at the moment.
     
    “As you explained this morning, not everyone in Exsilium can be trusted. When Corra was designed, the council decided that the only gate would be this one. It’s guarded by me, and if Abby needs to go to Corra for something it’s right here to use,” he explained in