Compis: Five Tribes by Kate Copeseeley

Author:Kate Copeseeley [Copeseeley, Kate]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: griffin, young adult fantasy, dystopian fiction, magical girl, kate copeseeley, young adult romance, compis
Amazon: B00GNU538U
Publisher: Kate Copeseeley
Published: 2011-04-29T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9:

Nikka

Jilli waited while Nikka put her bags in the luggage stack of the carriage and when she had scrambled up into the seat next to her, feeling flushed and disarrayed after wrestling with the bags, she took a moment to study the woman. Jilli was impeccable, not a hair in the wrong place, not a lovely, glowing pearl askew. Her gown of pale blue flowed without a wrinkle from her icy white shoulders to her slipper covered feet. She flicked the reigns and the horse trotted forward.

“We are traveling to my house; it's only a few minutes away. I am without a mate, but I do have a housewoman, Agga, who has been with me for many years. You will have your own room, but it's not a large house, I don't need one. When I find it necessary to host parties, I make arrangements to use the meeting hall in town.

“Something will also have to be done about your food. We Aquis, and our servants, as well, eat mostly raw fish. I'll have them send over some of the Initiate's food for Agga to prepare. I'm sure she'll be able to make anything you need.

“If you want to write to your family and friends—doubtless you will—there is paper in the desk and Agga will deliver them. Sea Mothers are very deft with common magic. Some say they were made when a Praete Line opened up into the ocean.”

Thinking of letters made Nikka think of her family and her cousin. She wondered what they were doing now. In a few short weeks she would stay with them and then it would be on to the Terris and then, finally second to last, she would stay with the Ignis. She would be staying at his house. She would see him all the time. Nikka wished that he'd at least said goodbye.

Will he continue to press upon my mind like a stone?

They pulled up in front of a cottage made of black stone. It was two-floored with several windows looking out on the road they'd come in on. Jilli slipped from the carriage and waited for Nikka to grab her bags, then she led her around the right side of the house.

“I thought I'd bring you this way so you could fully appreciate the view,” she said.

Nikka dropped the bags and raced to the edge of a porch that was walled in by a wooden fence. Out in front of her, in a wide blue-green vista, was the ocean, tumbling and spraying. Nikka had never seen the ocean in her life, though she'd seen pictures in books.

“The books don't tell you how loud it is,” Nikka said. “Does it always crash so?”

“Yes, and for a few nights you might have trouble sleeping, but after a while, the waves will be a lullaby that sends you to sleep every night.”

Jilli, for the first time since Nikka met her, looked like more than a statue. Nikka could see the love in her face when she spoke of the sea.

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