Circle of Time Boxed Set by Jada Fisher

Author:Jada Fisher [Fisher, Jada]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fairfield Publishing
Published: 2020-07-27T22:00:00+00:00

8

Crash Landing

Ukrah was falling, except there was no direction, no up or down or sideways. She was buffeted this way and that, not exactly flying but also no threat of collision with the ground. Because there was no ground. There was just rushing magic and energy and swirling colors that she couldn’t discern.

Her body felt stretched out beyond capacity, like someone was holding her head, someone else was holding her feet, and they were pulling and pulling until she was basically a long, thin rope that used to be a human. And yet, strangely enough, she could also feel that she was still holding onto Voirdr, her arms wrapped around his neck while his wings were wrapped around her, cocooning her body from the swirling vortex.

She felt nauseous, she felt dizzy, and she also felt…muted? It was hard to put her finger on exactly what the sensation was, low and dull in the back of her head. But she’d grown used to sharing her body with an energy that wasn’t her own in the years since that fateful night in the desert, and she was feeling it slowly slip away from her.

That, combined with the whipping around—the whirling, the churning, the burning brightness—made everything else scramble. There was no time, no thirst or hunger. There was just the colorful, insane void that she was tumbling through and that was it. It was her whole world, her whole mind, her whole—

Without any ceremony, she was dumped out hard onto something solid, her entire body jarring at the impact. Pain lanced through her, but it had to compete with so many other sensations that it hardly even seemed to be of note. She was also faintly aware of four other thuds beside her, followed by some groans and an indignant snort.

Oh, and the sounds of metal on metal and people shouting at each other.

Pushing herself up with shaking arms, she realized that the five of them had landed in the middle of a grass patch in the forest, and also—probably more importantly—right in the middle of a battle.

Ukrah was on her feet in a moment, but her head swam at the motion and she stumbled right back onto her knees. She felt…strange. So very strange.

She felt human. And that was it.

But Voirdr was still Voirdr, thankfully, and lunged in front of Ukrah, his tail thwacking an errant arrow from its path toward her middle. He was different too, bigger, his head longer, his eyes sharper. And she could…feel him in a way she hadn’t before. A sort of bright, shimmering bond wrapping around the two of them and binding them together.

She didn’t have much time to be comforted by the sensation however, because his roar drew far much more attention than was healthy. Ukrah saw a couple of heads turn toward her, and she knew that absolutely wasn’t good.

But then a small hand was gripping her wrist, pulling her even farther back. Ukrah stumbled a bit but managed to catch herself as

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