Errant Spark (Elemental Trials Book 1) by Ronelle Antoinette

Author:Ronelle Antoinette [Antoinette, Ronelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ronelle Antoinette
Published: 2016-06-30T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

“So what is it about her?”

“About who? Careful!”

An exasperated sigh. “Stop moving and it won’t spill.”

“Don’t be unkind, Sarene. You try lying in essentially one position for weeks and then try not to move once you can.”

The soft clink of metal against ceramic continued unbroken for a time.

While Jex had managed to get himself up and dressed the night before, his fever had returned in the aftermath of his mental link with Enari. He’d reluctantly retreated to bed early that morning, but to everyone’s relief, he’d been much less disagreeable about it than expected.

“Well?” Sarene asked.

“Well what?”

“What’s so special about the little red-headed tart I threw out of here?”

“She’s not a tart, and that was very rude of you.”

“Just answer my question!”

“Nani’s a good person and I enjoy her company, when she isn’t pulling my chest hair out with those sticky bandages and— YOU VILE WITCH!”

Enari winced and tried to ignore them, bending her head over the tome in her lap again and squinting at the tiny and uneven scrawl that covered the page. Until now, she’d thought it impossible for anyone to have worse penmanship than herself, but she had found the one man in existence who did. The light in Jex’s sitting room was insufficient for the task of deciphering the spidery writing, but she persisted anyway, having nothing else to do until Sarene got bored and left.

The sound of a breaking dish came from the next room and she grimaced. On top of everything else that had already happened today, another mess to clean up was exactly what she needed.

She’d had another of those evil dreams again in the wee hours of the morning, which only seemed to compound her lingering headache. The ache had started behind her eyes shortly after Jex had been in her mind, and she was forced to assume that either the experience itself or the sudden way in which the link had broken was to blame.

Jex, aching and feverish, had proved to be rather docile so far, yet she still found her patience with him was short. All she wanted was to lose herself in the library and see what more she could find on psychomancy. The single tome she’d been able to snatch up this morning seemed to be more concerned with vague theory than the affects it could have on the user.

Then Sarene chose to make her unbearable presence known.

Less than half an hour earlier, the torina had breezed into Jex’s room with a tray of soup and bread and ordered Enari out as if she were a common servant. This had become a daily occurrence once he was deemed strong enough to take normal food, and she’d been particularly discourteous that day.

Their bickering started the instant Enari closed the door and they showed no signs of stopping.

“You did that on purpose this time!”

“You’re being horrid!” Sarene accused.

There was a rattle of crockery as something was slammed down.

“So dumping hot soup on me was your solution?” Jex bellowed at her.

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