Everflame- Mystic Wild by Dylan Peters

Author:Dylan Peters [Peters, Dylan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dylan Lee Peters
Published: 2019-06-16T22:00:00+00:00

In the morning, we worked at the twisted trees around us until we had made a gap large enough to see outside. It was gray, but light, and there was no sign of mynahs. We had come through the night unscathed. Once again, the mysticals had saved us, and now Jim had saved me on the same day I’d given him a black eye.

“I really owe you one for yesterday,” I said to Jim. “I guess I probably owe you more than one.”

“You kidding, Creepy?” Jim said with a shrug. “I fought off a bunch of monsters with a shovel in the Nullwood. That’s like… probably the coolest thing I’ve ever done in my life.”

Jim smiled and laughed, and so did I. Jim could be a jerk, but more and more it seemed like he was a friend. The change in him hadn’t been lost on me.

Neither was it lost on me what the forest had done for us. It had helped to heal Ah’Rhea, it had provided us shelter, and it had revealed the dome to us in a vision. I was thankful, and for the first time I felt connected to the Nullwood in a positive way. It had seemed like such a place of nightmares, but it was changing; or maybe I was learning how to see it better.

We eventually worked our way out of our gnarled black shelter. Wisket and Reego chased each other around the trees, releasing a night’s worth of pent up energy. The rest of us stretched and ate some provisions from our backpacks. We had a direction now, though it was vague. We would head northwest, to the dome of colored branches. I was sure it was where we would find the Everflame.

“What do you think happened to the mynahs?” Anna asked.

“I don’t know,” Ah’Rhea said, “but we should remain vigilant. They could return anytime.”

Ah’Rhea had burned her arm so we could induce our vision. She had sacrificed and suffered for our purpose. Now in the light of day, we could see how bad the burn on her arm was, and we considered asking Reego and Wisket to heal it. But we were wary of taxing them so early in the day, and decided against it. Who knew what obstacles we would face today. Instead, Jim helped Ah’Rhea bandage her arm, and we all thanked her.

“It needed to be done,” she said simply in response to our thanks. “We need the Everflame.”

Ah’Rhea’s focus was unrelenting. It reminded us of our journey ahead, and so we began our walk northwest. Wisket finished playing and found respite, as he usually did, in Anna’s lap. Reego, however, was still brimming with energy, so Kay picked a stick up from the forest floor and played fetch with the mystical dog as we walked.

“I’ve never done that with him,” Ah’Rhea said to Kay. “I never thought he would like it.”

“I guess I just don’t know how to treat him, other than to treat him like a normal dog,” Kay said and shrugged.

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