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

really, really afraid to tell you. I know you think I’m brave bu t－ ”
    “Just take it slow. Who are they? Who is Kylar, he’s different, you know what I mean?”
    “Kylar is a man, the opposite of us. Elektra said he was our protector.”
    “Protector, for us!? Why do we need protection?” Is someone trying to harm us?”
    Amber nodded nervously and I could tell she was from the way she kept making ringlets with her finger in her hair as she spoke, she only ever did that if she was super nervous about something.
    One spring morning she was climbing the tallest pine tree in the back yard and was almost to the top and could see further than she’d ever seen before and Ophelexa screamed at her to come down. That’s the last time I saw her do that. While Ophelexa was still yelling she had made a whole bunch of ringlets before the yelling finally stopped.
    I reached over and stopped her. “Amber, are we going to be okay?”
    “I don’t know, she told me we need to be ready to leave two days from now. She said they’re coming back and that we’re all going to go with them, but not Madame Tutella.”
    “I don’t understand. Where are we going?”
    “Elektra told me, home, and it’s up.”
    “Up? What does that mean? Home is up?”
    “I don’t know Jade, you’re the oldest. Should we trust them?”
    “Perhaps we should tell Ophelexa or Madame Tutella,” I said. “They’ll be angry with us if we keep this from them.”
    “Wait a minute Jade. I want to show you . . . ” Amber reached under her bed and pulled out a large ornate box and after flipping the lid open she took out something I had never seen before. She unwrapped it and handed it to me.
    “Where did you get this? What is it?”
    “One time when I was out late by myself, I met up with Jasmine, she gave it to me. She said there’s a place called New York and that there were ‘ men ’ there. That’s what made me nervous when I saw Kylar.”
    “Amber, what is this?”
    “Jasmine said she found it in a flower bed, she thinks it fell out of the sky. She told me all kinds of things are coming down because ‘Kylar people’ men, are drilling!? And they’re making holes in the sky and keep losing things that fall down. She showed me how this works.”
    “Works? Like what?”
    “It’s called an MP3 player and there’s singing on it. Listen.”
    Amber held the “MP3” player up to my ear and I couldn’t believe what was going on.
    “Don’t be afraid, I listen to it all the time, there’s no one inside of it, it’s just singing.”
    Amber had taken the player away from my ears but I could still hear the melodic voices coming from it. It wasn’t like anything I had ever heard before, there were instruments of sound being used with the voices that made the singing sound different, but good different. Where was this place called New York, how could we go up without steps or did we need to climb the tallest tree to get there?
    Amber continued, “Elektra said that “ bad times” are going to be here soon but not to be afraid because they’re coming for us and she loves us, so does Kylar and Kira and she said the Madame Tutella that was here is really Sin-dy, an Alter-Witch, like the ones we read about as kids, I didn’t think they were real, but they are!”
    My sister was pacing around the room, making ringlets in her hair. So much had just happened. “Can you come and sit next to me?” I asked. “I’m afraid too. What should we do?”
    “Sarturas isn’t home Jade, up there is, that’s home,” Amber said. “I want to go there, I want us all to go.”
    “Me too, but I’m getting tired. Can we can talk some more after our chores tomorrow morning, when Madame Tutella is at her meeting.”
    We climbed into bed and snuggled together. Across the room Coral and Davina were sound asleep in the other bed. So much had just happened that I wasn’t sure about anything anymore. Why did these strangers want to help us, who were they?
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