By the Sea of Sand by Megan Hart

Author:Megan Hart
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chaos Publishing

Chapter 19

“You must be feeling better,” Teila said to him.

“I couldn’t stay inside any more. The others just sit around doing nothing.”

She laughed ruefully. “They do, indeed. I guess they feel entitled to a little rest.”

He didn’t feel entitled. He felt restless and bored. He felt weak. The exercises he’d been doing had come from the data stream, the first good use of it he’d been able to make. He hadn’t had any more luck in muting it or controlling the flow, but he’d been able to pull something out of it that made sense, and that was quite an accomplishment.

“They’d probably feel better if they worked on something other than their bad moods. You should make them help you out here.” He eyed her handheld upon which she’d been typing. “I’m sure you have a list of chores that need taken care of. Even old Venga could help around here.”

She shrugged and tucked the handheld into the pocket of her robe. “It’s not Venga’s job, or any of theirs, to help here. They’re here to rest and recover however they choose.”

He squinted to try and read her expression. Her tone held no hint of condescension or contempt. “Has there been a lot of damage from the storm?”

“No. The lighthouse was built to withstand even the worst storms. The boathouse will need a new set of doors and nearly all of the windows will have to be replaced. The rest can be repaired, but I can’t fix or replace the scudder.”

“What happened to it?” Without thinking about it, he’d started following her around the curve of the lighthouse and along the shore toward the boathouse.

Teila tugged at the double doors, both of which had splintered and sagged. When she couldn’t get one open enough to get inside, he reached around her to grab it. He might feel weak and out of shape, but he still had the strength to pull the entire door off its broken hinges. In fact, he pulled it so hard with so little resistance that the door flew backwards and broke into several pieces on the hard earth behind them.

Teila stared at him, mouth parted, brows raised.

“Sorry,” he said gruffly. “It wasn’t as stuck as I’d expected.”

Inside the shadows of the boathouse, away from the glare of the suns, it was so much cooler that he drew in a grateful breath. Teila showed him the small scudder, victim to a fallen roof beam. The whole boathouse, as a matter of fact, looked ramshackle and ready to fall over at any minute.

He ran a hand over the punctured hull. “This wouldn’t take much to fix, not with the right tools and materials.”

At first she didn’t answer, but when she did, she put herself directly in front of him. “You could fix this boat.”

He knew he could, but the fact that she seemed to know he could caught his attention. He’d been angry with her before. Furious to the point of violence. But something about the dream he’d had had calmed him.

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