Dark Witch: Twin Destinies (The Children Of The Gods Paranormal Romance Book 84) by I. T. Lucas

Author:I. T. Lucas [Lucas, I. T.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Evening Star Press, LLC.
Published: 2024-06-15T00:00:00+00:00

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JASMINE

Jasmine was afraid to let herself get excited about the unassuming-looking mountain that her scrying stick was adamantly pointing to.

It couldn't be that easy.

She'd expected to trek through these mountains for weeks. They all had. Could their search be over as soon as they reached that mountain?

She started walking, but Aru's hand on her shoulder stopped her. "Not so fast," he said. "I know you are eager to walk, but I need you to get into the harness."

"Why? My ankle doesn't hurt anymore. I don't know how it suddenly got better, but I'm not going to look a gift horse in the mouth, right?"

She looked for any sign that he was somehow involved in her rapid healing, some flicker of amusement or guilt, but the god's expression didn't reveal a thing.

"I know that your ankle feels better at the moment, but it's not smart for you to hike up a mountain and put stress on the injury. Besides, you would slow us down even if you were completely healed. It's better all round if you take advantage of the harness."

As much as Jasmine hated to admit it, he was right. The last thing she wanted was to slow them down or reinjure herself and become an even greater burden.

With a sigh of resignation, she nodded. "You're right."

Negal put the harness on and crouched. "Up you go," he encouraged.

Dagor gave her a sympathetic smile as he helped her back into the harness on Negal's back. "Don't feel bad. Without you, we would have been searching these mountains for decades, and there was no guarantee that we would have found anything."

Jasmine managed a weak smile in return. "You had some clues from your previous visit. Otherwise, you wouldn't have been heading to Tibet in the first place."

"True." Dagor arranged the straps around her. "We have trekked through a different part of Tibet before, but we were chasing unsubstantiated rumors because we had nothing better to go on."

"Funny that you would say that. A vision and a scrying stick are not exactly scientific methods either."

"I agree." Negal stood up with ease. "On the other hand, if the pods were easy to find, we wouldn't have found so many other wonderful things while looking for them."

He adjusted the harness's straps to distribute her weight more evenly and walked up to Aru, who was waiting with two backpacks strapped on, one on his back and the other on his front.

He looked like a pack mule, and so did Dagor once he hefted the other two backpacks, but they still moved fluidly and gracefully despite the weight and how cumbersome it was to walk with double the burden.

The mile-long journey to the cliff face was grueling. The steep incline and uneven terrain made every step a challenge. Jasmine clung to Negal's back, her fingers digging into the thick fabric of his jacket as she tried to keep herself steady.

The landscape around them was a breathtaking tableau of rugged beauty, with snow-capped peaks looming in the distance like silent sentinels.

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