Amazon: Signs of the Secret by Becky J. Rhush

Author:Becky J. Rhush
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781467916240
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 0101-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

The already heavy push behind me surged forward in a burst, nearly knocking me to the ground. Stumbling into Saratiese, my leg muscles burned against the shoving mass, but I couldn’t budge from my place. The dark pressed in darker and the heat of the people prompted my sweat, saturating me. Stinging my blind eyes. Coughing, dust coated into my lungs. My ribs burned like I’d been running for days.

“Sara?” I shouted over the crowd.

Her voice came to me from the darkness ahead. “I’m here!”

“Don’t let me fall!” I clenched my hands into her sides, stumbling step by step in the black.

“It’s breaking up.”

The pressure in front of us loosened at her words, and I could finally breathe again. The narrow tunnel branched off into three separate passageways, and the crowd divided, trickling over into the different turns. The rushing from behind poured around us as Saratiese ambled to the wall, sliding down to rest in the dirt. I sat next to her, smearing the grime and sweat from my face, catching my breath. The dark still loomed, but my eyes were adjusting a bit, taking in the shapes of people as they ran past us.

"You think we’re close to the outside?" Saratiese asked in ragged breaths, smearing the sweat from her forehead.

“I don’t know.” I sucked in a lungful of air, still jittery from the suffocated feel of so many people. “But thank goddess we’re out of that tunnel. I couldn‘t breathe.”

“Gods, I know.”

“I was afraid we were going to hit a stop in the tunnel and just be crammed in there till we ran out of air.”

“So, are we waiting?”

“Yeah.” I nodded in the dark. “Just for a short while. See if we can find the others.”

“Commander Laidea.”

“Yeah.” I admitted.

Numerous groups streamed by, flooding into the forked tunnels. After countless people, Saratiese and I still hadn’t spotted Laidea, or anyone else from our company, so we decided to venture the middle tunnel. We wandered through the new darkness, hand in hand, with me leading. My stride ambled somewhat off balance, my muscles a bit jellied from so many days chained in the cavern.

Only seeing three people go in before us, and maybe a couple more eyeing this tunnel after us, I realized that not many people had chosen this route. I didn’t say anything to Saratiese about it, but the little twist in my gut made me pray there wasn’t a reason. I’d only been a warrior a mere week of days, at most, and my skills seemed to be off put by this entire quest. Hopefully, if I lived through this experience, it would mold me into a real warrior.

Because just now, I didn’t feel so brave. Or smart. I didn’t want to admit it, and I never would aloud, but that was another reason I had wanted to wait for Commander Laidea. She would know what to do. How to get us out. She was always calm and wise. Courageous. If I couldn’t find her on the outside, I didn’t know what I was going to do.

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