Dare to Defy by Breanna Hayse

Author:Breanna Hayse [Hayse, Breanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Stormy Night Publications
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Daynel paced the length of the tiny cabin, trying to determine her next move. She had no illusions, despite the newfound “courtesy” she was being shown, that she was anything more than Ethan’s captive. But how to escape this floating prison? She looked out the small window from which she emptied her chamber pot, and began to form a plan in her mind. The fit would be tight, and the risk high, but Daynel saw it to be the only way to gain freedom. But when? And to where?

Baldric had told her that the Eastern Islands were only accessible by the Great Waters, and had indicated that they would have been taking a ship from the same port on which Ethan was docked. Was there any chance that they would bypass the islands on the way to the southern kingdom? Regretting that she had paid virtually no attention to her tutors in geography, Daynel fell to the second distasteful measure. Prayer.

“I am not to be disturbed for any reason,” she announced to the guard at the door. “I am in prayer and, if disturbed, I have no control over the power,” she lied. The look of the guard’s face convinced her that her tale was believed. She further instructed him that they could leave food inside of her door, but were not to speak or touch her for any reason. She would be covered, Daynel informed them, with a shawl, but her body would be visible to them at all times.

True to her word, Daynel sat cross-legged, in sight of the door, and covered with a large blanket as she prayed. Some meals she ate, others she did not. For four days, she practiced this pattern, waiting for the time when she knew she was to escape. She did pray during this time, asking for a sign…anything to let her know that her time to gain her freedom drew near. On the fourth day, a swallow perched in the window of the cabin. Daynel swallowed back a squeak of excitement. Land was close by!

After leaving her evening meal at the door, the guard returned to his post, bored and disinterested. In minutes, she heard his snores and began to gather items from around the cabin to be covered by the blanket and disguise her absence. The decoy looked convincing, especially in the light of a candle, and Daynel carefully pulled herself through the small window. In the past, she had hated her size. Her family had teased her for years, even her younger male cousins, about her tiny stature. She had been accused being one of the faerie-folk or a wood-nymph, and not a human being. Günter warned them on multiple occasions that what she lacked in height, she made up for in attitude. She proved him right by leaving each of her male cousins at one time or another with either a swollen lip or a blackened eye. Even her twin brothers, large as they were, had tasted

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