Catch a Wolf by A. Katie Rose

Author:A. Katie Rose [Rose, A. Katie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy
Publisher: Untreed Reads
Published: 2013-05-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Children of the Sh’azhar

Ly’Tana went down.

The earth undulated in a rolling up and down motion, forcing Rufus to brace his hooves to prevent the soil beneath him from flipping him arse over nostrils. I seized my pommel, prepared to kick my way from the saddle should Rufus be thrown hard to the ground. Behind me, I heard sharp curses, neighs of fear and a short scream from Arianne.

“Earthquake!” Corwyn yelled over the roar of the demented river.

No shit, I half-thought.

“Ly’Tana!" Kel’Ratan shrieked her name, his voice high and womanish.

I peered down, into the canyon.

Her buckskin stallion rolled over, his hooves, kicking and thrashing, hit the air for a fleet moment before the river’s swift current struck him again. Tumbling over and over, caught in the cascading river, his head emerged long enough for him to gasp a quick lungful of air. The powerful surge then washed him sideways and down. Ly’Tana’s hair breached the surface, an arm broke through to air when the stallion rolled her under again.

Beside me, Kel’Ratan cursed, a choking sound deep in his throat. He made to push his horse past Rufus, but both horses were too big for the narrow space. He couldn’t get his horse past mine. Cursing again, he reined his stallion back to perhaps kick him straight over the cliff edge. His bay scrambled to keep his feet under him as the earth shook herself, a cat killing the mouse in its teeth. That most effectively halted his foolish notion.

I don’t know if it was a rock or a hoof that struck her head. Ly’Tana went instantly still. The river tossed her about like a child’s toy, cascading down around and over her. Her limp body showed at the surface for a fleet instant, then disappeared into the churning, roiling water. Whitecaps closed over the spot where she’d been.

“Ly’Tana!” Kel’Ratan’s wail of sheer despair bit deep into my soul. I glanced over my shoulder as Rufus half-bucked, trying to maintain his balance and me on his back.

The earthquake wasn’t finished.

The identical black stallions belonging to Left and Right skidded into one another, whinnying with panic. Corwyn’s ugly roan kept his feet and his balance with an effort, as the grey mare reared, tossing Tor to the quivering ground. Only Corwyn’s firm hand on her bridle prevented her from falling backward and crushing Arianne beneath her solid weight. Rannon cursed fluently as his horse backed up, strong legs splayed wide.

“Where is she?”

Rannon’s voice rose above the din, the roar of the river, the crashing of timbers, the half-panicked voices of the horses and no few of the warriors.

“I don’t see her!” Witraz yelled, forcing his piebald closer to the cliff edge, peering down.

I kicked Rufus.

He answered with more courage, more intelligence, more nerve than any horse I’d ever met. He leaped out and down, lunging down the side of the rocky cliff face. Down the side of the cliff I’d just stopped Kel’Ratan from forcing his horse into jumping. He took both

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