Elf World Shadows Rising by Matthew Pequegnat

Author:Matthew Pequegnat [Pequegnat, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-01-27T00:00:00+00:00

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The next day the Elf girls laughed and skipped ahead of the party as they neared the road north to Cozon. Myst seemed to be dragging in at the rear of the group, so Thomas slowed down so he caught up to him.

“Are you alright Myst, are you feeling well?” Thomas asked, concernedly.

“Yes, Thomas I am fine, just did not get much sleep that’s all.”

“You should not have taken the whole watch. Why did you not wake me for my shift, hum?”

“I was,… up with Kayla and Zara, Harvest Feast you know,” he responded in a dead pan voice.

“Oh,… oh my, I see, well that’s, well then… Hum.”

They continued to walk together quietly.

Thomas thought, “I really need to get Willow back to our own people, these Elves are strange. I love many of them, but this is just not the thing for a young Gnome to be exposed to!”

From up ahead Willow called back to them. “The road! We found the road!”

Quickly the group traveled now on the hard packed road. As they angled closer to the Waste, the vegetation seemed to shrink, and then to disappear almost entirely. Hard baked rock out cropping and sun scorched earth dominated the landscape, as they trudged mile after long mile, sparse tuffs of desert grass the only signs of life.

Nearly sunset found them some ten miles south of the city; too far to make before midnight, and not the sort of place that was safe to walk at night.

“Lets leave the road, and find a place to camp for the night, and we can get to the city tomorrow,” suggested Zara. “There are things that hunt travelers so near the Waste. It would be safer to hide until morning.”

“Good idea, Zara,” piped up Thomas.

Zara led them a couple hundred yards off the road into a spur of a dry riverbed. While dry there must have been enough moisture to allow a scattering of scrub brush to survive.

“If you dig down far enough in the center of the riverbed, you can usually find water, that’s how these trees survive,” Zara told them as she unrolled her sleeping mat, and noticeably left her clothing on for sleep, danger of attack a real possibility.

They bedded down in as hidden of a spot as they could find, huddled close together, to wait out the long hours in hopeful safety on a very dark and quiet night.

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