Change of Chaos by Jacinta Jade

Author:Jacinta Jade
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Tags: Fiction
Publisher: Jacinta Jade Books
Published: 2019-10-26T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

BEING A PASSENGER in the wagon was an enjoyable experience for Siray after her hard days of travelling prior to reaching the commander’s camp. The sun shone through the tree branches arching overhead, giving the forest floor a dappled look, and while the day was warm, the trees provided cool shade for the wagon.

After her recent experiences, Siray felt this kind of travelling was quite luxurious, and she happily stretched out her legs to rest them on the bent-up lip of the front of the wagon.

Before her, the strong munder beasts pulled the wagon at a consistent speed and didn’t appear to tire or slow even on the steepest hill. They only seemed to need verbal orders and the occasional steering back onto the path by the wagon driver when one of the leaders spotted a juicy-looking piece of foliage.

The driver, a round and weathered male called Hurtol, delighted in telling Siray his travel stories. He was a slightly dishevelled-looking male who wore a wide hat that rode low over his forehead and talked to his munder beasts as often as he talked to Siray, sometimes talking to both in the same sentence, which both amused and confused her. She listened to his stories with half an ear, his keen chatter making a pleasant background to the thoughts that ran through her mind.

Currently he was telling Siray of a small village that he had had to deliver goods to without anyone really knowing where it was. This particular story, with its many interjections to the munder beasts, had taken up enough time for the sun to move a hand’s width overhead, but the long span of speaking never seemed to bother Hurtol. Rather, it seemed as if he were almost making up for lost time, given the apparent rarity of travellers joining him.

‘… and so I was travelling through this town, when—heya, keep steady, then!’

Siray blinked out of a daydream as Hurtol switched midsentence to pull his beasts slightly back into line.

‘No lunch ’til I say we stop,’ he continued admonishingly to his beasts. ‘And then, this male comes out of nowhere and tries to force me to pull over, but I wasn’t having any of it, and so I just gave my beasties a good yell, and we flew past him before he could even finish his threats!’

Hurtol puffed his chest up proudly, seemingly done with his story.

Siray tuned her whole mind back to the conversation and smiled kindly at him. ‘So, you’ve really been around then?’

Hurtol nodded emphatically, never taking his eyes off his beasts and the road ahead. ‘Yep, I most certainly have. You’d probably like to hear about the time I went to the …’ And Hurtol was off again on his next story.

Siray smiled and relaxed more into her seat. She was going to the training camp where she would learn to Change and become a soldier for the Resistance.

Yet her thoughts continually returned to Baindan. Last night as he was leaving her hut, Siray had decided to be bold.

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