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    The Elumi: Gabriel
    The Elumi: Gabriel
    The Elumi: Gabriel
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    The Elumi: Gabriel

    By Marie Morin

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    Kylee’s quest for justice for her murdered sister leads her into the dark underworld of the city. There, two worlds collide and the Elumi, Gabriel, drawn unwittingly and unwillingly into her private war. But is the price too high?

    The Elumi are banished to Lower Earth when they fail their masters. There is only one road to redemption and Gabriel's world collides with Kylees in the pursuit of it.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Concepts Publishing
    Release dateMay 25, 2015
    ISBN9781603948975
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      The Elumi - Marie Morin

      The Elumi: Gabriel

      By

      Marie Morin

      ( c ) copyright August 2005, Madris DePasture writing as Marie Morin

      Cover art by Jenny Dixon, ( c ) copyright April 2014

      ISBN 978-1-60394

      Smashwords Edition

      New Concepts Publishing

      Lake Park, GA 31636

      www.newconceptspublishing.com

      This is a work of fiction. All characters, events, and places are of the author’s imagination and not to be confused with fact. Any resemblance to living persons or events is merely coincidence.

      Prologue

      In the beginning, when the star dust of an exploding sun sprinkled the world with the seeds of life, they were among the first to crawl from the primordial soup, emerging as chameleon-like creatures, able to change shape and color at will to protect themselves from the predators that emerged alongside them. Like the salamander, they could heal the most grievous wounds with amazing speed and grow new appendages when necessary. This gift for rapid cell regeneration, they used to give themselves an even stronger advantage over the beasts that would prey upon them, the development of wings to glide high above the tangle of vegetation that had sprouted from the soil, where death lay behind every frond and leaf. Eventually they developed the ability for true flight.

      These endowments gained them the right to life when others perished and eventually, over time, they emerged as the Elumi, evolving into the dominant, intelligent species of their world.

      When the first, ape-like creatures that were man’s ancestors emerged and began their struggle to cultivate and dominate nature, the Elumi had already conquered the known world and its skies, and their gifts had led them to see what no other eyes could see—the gateway to a world that coexisted with the primitive, violent Earth, beyond the destructive forces of nature, beyond the reach of time, beyond the tedious struggles of mankind, who were multiplying and polluting the world the Elumi had dominated for ages.

      For a time, the Elumi and mankind lived side by side and the Elumi enjoyed the awe with which these weaker creatures viewed them, calling them gods, angels, demons, fairies—and endowing these God-like beings with many powers the Elumi didn’t actually possess. For a time, the Elumi fought the boredom of their existence with these intelligent beasts, amused themselves with these savage, pseudo-intelligent creatures, but there was little sport in it when all was said and done and in time they grew more annoyed than amused and the Elumi passed beyond the gate, away from the distraction of these lesser beings to pursue their own course.

      Their gifts had made them virtually immortal, resulting in a notable lack of fear of death, which encouraged their natural aggressiveness. With no reason to progress beyond that stage they found most compatible with their warlike dispositions, they simply did not. The strongest and most aggressive carved out kingdoms for themselves, twelve in all. Twelve kingdoms dwindled to four as the ages passed and one by one they fell to a mightier foe.

      Many ages of mankind passed in the world below them while the remaining kingdoms contented themselves with merely squabbling over boundaries and incursions into the other kingdoms from time to time to count coup or to take a particularly appealing prize, but the time came when they grew restless. The time came when the petty disputes erupted once more into all out war when King Braeden of Nardu threatened the balance of power by seeking to ally himself to the kingdom of Marceena by marriage to the Princess Leia.

      Wily King Edric, father of Princess Leia, did not oppose the match, but did not approve it either since he was well aware that King Braeden wanted his kingdom far more than his daughter. He allowed the courtship and bided his time while he considered how he might turn the situation to his own advantage and add the Kingdom of Nardu to his own holdings under his rule.

      The threat was enough to alarm both King Sorecet of Garyn and King Gozal of Tearra and although they were fast enemies, they began to negotiate the possibility of joining forces to oppose the army they feared would rise against them the moment King Braeden and King Edic settled their differences.

      And thus it came about that the wars in the land of Pearthen, high Earth, spilled over into the lower world of mankind once more.

      Chapter One

      It’s been two frigging years, Kylee said angrily. You mean to say you’ve got nothing? How could you have nothing?

      She could see that the detective sitting across from her was holding onto his patience only with a strenuous effort, but she didn’t care. Snatching a drawer open, he hefted a file fully six inches thick from it and plopped it down on the top of his desk.

      We’ve got a whole lot of nothing, he said tightly. We’ve followed every lead, but we ran out of leads more than a year ago. So, unless you have something new…?

      Her stomach tightened as she stared at him, trying to gather up the nerve to put her plan into action.

      She’d never considered herself a coward—still didn’t. The plan that had slowly evolved in her mind wasn’t the product of a sane person of bravery, but one insane with grief and the need for vengeance. But she was not so far off the deep end to feel no fear of something she had every reason to fear.

      I’ve—I decided to smoke him out. I’d like your help if you’re willing to help me, but I’ll do it anyway, she said quickly before she lost her nerve.

      Detective Strand gave her a patronizing look that made her long to slap him. If you’ll pardon me saying so, that would be plain out stupid. You’ll only end up getting yourself killed.

      You know it was her…. She stopped. She couldn’t bring herself to say ‘pimp’, not about her baby sister. Drug dealer sounded almost as bad. The truth was the bastard had gotten her little sister hooked and used her and then killed her when she tried to get out because she knew too much about him. …boyfriend that killed her, she finished, feeling ill even to use that description, although it was less offensive to her sister’s memory.

      "We think it was him, and that means exactly zero, because we haven’t found anything to link him to the murder aside from the fact that he was her pimp. It could just as easily have been one of her johns."

      Kylee winced at the word pimp. How dare the bastard sit in judgment on poor Stacy! She hadn’t been much more than a kid, easy prey for the sonofabitch that had used her, but she could see it in his face. As far as he was concerned, Stacy was nothing but trash, a whore and a junky and undeserving of life—or his valuable time. White faced, Kylee got to her feet. "Well, how about I do your job for you? If I get a confession for you on tape, do you think you could put the bastard away? Or does it

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