Bound by Shadows (Kissed by Shadows Series, Book 2) by Lola StVil

Author:Lola StVil
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lola StVil
Published: 2018-02-12T16:00:00+00:00

We stand looking at the riddle and looking at each other. Everyone’s face looks as blank as my mind feels. I can’t believe we came this far and managed to uncover the riddle, just to not know the answer.

“It doesn’t even make sense,” Saudia says.

She has said exactly what I’m thinking, but hearing it out loud frightens me. I was hoping one of the team would laugh and say it’s easy.

“What now?” Perry asks after we all stand gazing at the riddle for a few minutes.

“Pest said the riddle changes every hour. We need to work it out. And fast,” I say.

“And how do you suggest we do that?” Quinn asks.

I shrug.

“We just need to think about it. There has to be a logical solution.”

I’m not sure I believe that, but I can’t let the team lose hope. Not now. Not when we’re this close.

“Death,” Remy says suddenly.

“Huh?” I say, turning to look at her.

She stares straight ahead of herself, her eyes not leaving the words on the wall and her voice is strangely robotic as she explains.

“It’s death. The beginning of everything and the end of everything.”

I think she might be right, but the emotionless monotone and the way she looks straight ahead are scaring me.

Regal glances over his shoulder.

“It can’t be that. The island hasn’t appeared.”

“But that’s the answer,” Remy insists.

Quinn’s lips are moving as she rereads the riddle to herself over and over again. I’m torn between working on the riddle and trying to talk to Remy.

Perry edges closer to Regal and I as we stand exchanging helpless glances.

“Guys, there’s something wrong with Remy. I… ”

Quinn’s excited shriek cuts him off.

“It’s not death. It’s E,” she announces.

“E?” I say. How can it be E?

“Think about it,” Quinn says, turning to us with an excited look on her face.

“Everything and eternity begin with the letter E. Time, place, and space all end with the letter E. I’m telling you, it’s E.”

The letters before us flare brightly, and the flames lick around themselves and extinguish. I spin around when there’s a roaring sound behind us like a huge tidal wave is coming towards us all.

The stretch of the sea behind us is covered in a carpet of red-hot flames. The roaring noise intensifies, and the water seems to be splitting apart.

Suddenly, I can see it. The Lost Island of Kavan isn’t lost anymore.

It sits in front of us, just over the water, but we have no way of getting to it. The flames are too hot for any of us to attempt to get underneath them and swim out to the island, and we can’t fly across.

The water rolls up the beach in fast, angry waves, soaking us from the waist down. Luckily, the flames stay in place, or we’d all have been incinerated.

As we watch, the water’s motion slows and returns to the gentle lapping motion it had when we arrived. The air above the flames starts to shimmer, and a bridge begins to form in front of us.

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