Age of Magic by Elise Kova & Lynn Larsh

Author:Elise Kova & Lynn Larsh [Kova, Elise & Larsh, Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781642372083
Publisher: Silver Wing Press
Published: 2018-09-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

To Protect

Jo found herself torn between utter contentment and agony.

Physically, at least, she was content. High Luana was possibly the most comfortable place she had ever been. Her every need was accounted for. Better than accounted for, actually; the elves had a keen knack for predicting what her needs would be before she even knew them herself. And, if they were wrong, all she had to do was ask. It seemed like no request was too much, and it was hard not to have a sort of competition evolve to see if she could conceive something to ask of them that would be too difficult for them to procure.

But if it was a competition, Jo was losing.

Yes, High Luana was comfortable from a physical standpoint. And if she turned off her brain she could find herself content to reside in such a location for an extended period of time. The problem was when she was thinking.

Because when she was thinking, she found herself obsessing. If she wasn’t obsessing about the plan to vanquish Pan, then she was obsessing about what it meant for her continued existence. And if she wasn’t obsessing about that, she was obsessing about Snow’s safety.

There was an agonizing sort of quiet that came out of Aristonia. For a kingdom that took up nearly a quarter of the world, news was slim, and it was the lack of information that led her mind to wander down every dark path, every sinister avenue of Pan’s creation. Surely, after the incident at the Sapphire Bridge, it was safe to assume that Pan knew Jo was in High Luana, now? Yet, if she knew, she had made no moves since Jo’s arrival. It was unnerving to think about, if Jo let her mind wander too far.

So Jo made every attempt to keep herself occupied.

In the mornings, she would go down to the shooting range with Takako—the woman was nothing if not determined to practice with every bow ever conceived. After she had worked through every specimen the elves could dredge up from their armory, she began to practice shooting in different positions, left-handed, right-handed, perched, crouched, from behind corners, and even hanging upside-down. She had yet to figure out how to simulate a snipers’ vantage, though she pestered the elves daily to somehow devise one. Just watching the girl shoot until her fingertips bled and her arm guard was torn through filled Jo with both comfort and pride. If their plan failed, it would certainly not be because of Takako.

In the afternoon of the second and third day, Jo, Wayne, and Takako all went down to the main city of High Luana. Of course, they weren’t permitted to go alone. A company of no less than four Elvish knights accompanied them through the city. Jo found it to be a little excessive, borderline paranoid, but she had to pick her battles, and so far she had won all of the important ones when it came to the elves.

The city was a sort of variant on Myrth.

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