Edgelanders (Serpent of Time) by Melzer Jennifer

Author:Melzer, Jennifer [Melzer, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Dragon's Gold
Published: 2014-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE

Lorelei moved through the throng of bodies and they stepped aside to allow her room to pass until she fell into step between Logren and Brendolowyn. She didn’t know why the things Finn said bothered her so much, but they did. If Rognar really was her father, did the taint of her blood disgust him too?

She was the first person to confess she had exactly zero experience when it came to matters of the heart, but in the days leading up to that moment she’d actually started to let herself trust him. In fact, her growing certainty that Finn was one of the few people in the world she could actually trust made her feel like a fool. Logren, whom she didn’t trust at all, had been right. She should put her faith in no one at all. It broke her heart that lack of trust extended to the one person she wanted to believe in above all others.

For the moment it was better if she put space between them and tried not to think about why the things he said bothered her so much.

“My lady, this is a most pleasant surprise.” Brendolowyn lowered his head in humbled greeting, the flash of kindness in his eyes confusing the conclusions she’d been mulling over about trust. He had a kind face, sharp with exotic angles that reminded her of Pahjah—a woman she’d trusted above all others from the moment she was old enough to know her nursemaid would never let her come to harm. His wide eyes possessed the same tenderness and intelligence she’d come to expect from her nurse, and though she didn’t want to admit it to anyone, those similarities made her long for home and Pahjah in ways she hadn’t allowed herself to feel for days. “Is the cloak I brought you warm enough?”

“Warmer than I expected it to be, thank you.”

They had come down the other side of the mountain as the distant sun climbed toward its noonday peak. Endless miles of blinding white tundra stretched before them, decorated with windswept peaks of white and sparse trees. Without trees to break the force of the wind, it blew straight through them, whipping their hair and clothes like a cruel master and keening until her numb ears rang with its song. Snow squalls spiraled across the landscape for miles before them, lifting loose, hazy crystals of white across their pathway and disguising the horizon from time to time.

She tugged the folds of that heavy cloak Brendolowyn laid over her shoulders tighter across her chest, holding them in place with gloved hands while she walked between them.

“Is it all right if I walk with you for a while, brother?” She looked to Logren, who lowered a hand to rest on her shoulder. There was warmth in his eyes, a flare of joy that try as he might to disguise shown clear.

“Of course,” he grinned. “I was hoping you would make your way to the front of the line.

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