Dawn of Legend by Mac Flynn

Author:Mac Flynn [Flynn, Mac]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Crescent Moon Studios, Inc.

17

I walked out of the house and into the bright sunny day. The birds sang overhead and the flowers glistened with the morning dew. I turned my steps toward the side of the house and the hedged walls that lay back there. I had just reached the archway when I saw Tristan coming out of the hedge. His head was bowed and his brow furrowed in thought. My heart quickened as I thought how handsome he looked in the bright light.

He lifted his head and smiled at me. “Good morning. I hope you slept well.”

I nodded. “Very well, thank you.” I leaned to one side and looked past him in the direction of the fountain. “Were you looking for something?”

He stopped at my side and half-turned toward the hedges. “‘Something’ is an apt word.”

“You’re thinking about that thing I saw in my world, aren’t you?” I guessed.

Tristan looked to me and smiled. “That’s quite astute of you to notice, and to answer your question, yes.”

“Do you think it was attached to your spell or something like that?” I suggested.

He looked back to the maze and shook his head. “I couldn’t be sure without having seen the creature myself.”

I pointed in the direction of the fountain. “Do you mind if I take a look?”

“The portal isn’t there,” he told me.

I dropped my hand and smiled. “I know, but it’s a nice fountain, and I really like the hedges.”

The corners of his lips twitched upward. “Do you? I’m very glad to hear that. You see, I planted them myself many years ago.”

“You did a wonderful job,” I complimented him as we walked into the hedge and I admired the perfect uniformity in the walls. “I’ve never seen one so tall and-”

We reached the fountain and a cold chill ran down my spine. Tristan wrapped his arm around my shoulders and drew me against his side. I looked up and saw that his bright golden eyes held a tinge of red and that his face was twisted in disgust. “Stay near me,” he commanded me.

“What’s going-” My question was answered before I finished it.

A dark puddle rose up from between the stones and congealed itself into a humanoid shape. My eyes widened as I recognized the same hideous creature as the thing I had confronted on that fateful night. “That’s the thing that attacked me!”

“Gwill!” Tristan shouted.

Gwill flowed out of the shadows of the hedges to our left. “You-” He glanced at the creature and started back. “How in all the gods did that get in here?”

“I thought perhaps you would know,” Tristan countered.

Gwill crossed his arms over his chest and shook his head. “I didn’t sense even a slither out of that monster.”

The black blob lifted its red eyes to the floating shadow. It let out a gurgling snarl and lunged at Gwill, but his incorporeal form meant the attacker merely flung itself through him. The thing splattered onto the stones five feet away from us and congealed into a puddle. The black liquid didn’t so much as twitch.

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