Brinks in Time_The Unification by Tom Rogal

Author:Tom Rogal [Rogal, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-11T00:00:00+00:00

The next morning, they continued before the sun had a chance to rise. Levus thought it would be wise to wait for the sun to heat the ground a bit. The storm had been powerful, but also very short. Izaris knew waiting would do nothing but delay them further. His clients didn’t particularly like their deliveries being late. He would speed up when he could, but they traveled mostly one speed, slow.

Divi didn't complain. Lozela was still a long way from their location as was the safe route. She truly didn’t want to have to make the rest of the journey on foot, carrying the merchant’s valuables should a wheel get stuck or broken.

Izaris said, “We’re going to have to slow down quite a bit again. That storm hit hard here. Mud and rocks everywhere. We’re lucky the heart of it went south of us during the night. Might delay us a day or two. Don’t want to get stuck either as we are only set to see drifters, thieves, or worse for the next couple days.”

Levus whispered, “If we went any slower we’d just be walking.”

She smiled. Just as he said this, though, the wind suddenly died down to nothing. Divi was getting nervous. Some mage trap spells had this effect. Her father did his best to disable them all, but it was possible he missed many. Nothing seemed to be going their way since they got past Kazcum-hi’s Canyon. Between the heavy rain, the moist ground, and now the wind. One thing she knew was that the wildlife they wanted to avoid were attracted to loud noises. Well, this was one mage who wouldn’t make any noise.

CRACK!

Half of the cart slumped to the ground as the sound echoed across the hills and valleys. Levus and Divi didn’t move at first. They didn’t know how to react. That was followed by the noise of a hat being thrown to the ground and a few obscenities from their driver. She didn’t want to believe what just happened, but she knew it had. Divi and Levus both stepped out of the slanting cart.

The wheel was splintered. It must have been all the rocks they had run over during their trip through those mountains. Izaris began to pick up the pieces of the broken wheel.

Levus asked, “How long is it going to take to fix?”

“Fix? This wheel has seen the end of its usefulness. I know another merchant is supposed to be by this way in about four days. We can wait until then. I have enough to support us for that. I’m not going to abandon my cargo unless it is entirely necessary.”

Levus walked over to Divi who was looking at the ground to the south.

“Looks like we’re going to be here a while.”

She didn’t reply. She'd heard something. Whatever it was, it was very close.

Nothing appeared out of the ordinary to him. An eerie silence filled the air.

Divi closed her eyes, only to open them just as fast, terror filling them.

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