Evil Unto Evil by Landon Porter

Author:Landon Porter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Paradox-Omni Entertainment
Published: 2015-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11 – The Journal of Lena Hiddakko

Long days of sea travel was starting to wear on Pele in a different manner than it did the others.

Brin and Raiteria complained about the food, which was mostly comprised of dried meat, sea crackers, and Allbuk's courtesy of the House's constant supply of fresh water. For Pele, the many flavors of Allbuk's was still novel enough that she couldn't agree with them.

Kaiel was constantly humming an odd mnemonic under his breath to prevent sea sickness. He hadn't been happy to discover that the House, being anchored magically to one of the Raptor's internal walls, also rocked and swayed with the waves. Having lived much of her life with the much more erratic movements of hailene airships, she adjusted to the yaw and pitch of the sea almost without a thought.

Ru was simply bored. Within a week, he'd completed all the rooms he wanted in the House and was running out of things to detail. Being banned from observing the mystic steam engine and the energist left him to fill most of his time muttering about not having anything to fill his time. Pele anticipated this and brought along a small stash of dime novels to wile away the hours as well as sparring with Brin and learning more about the modern world from Kaiel and Raiteria.

It was the ship itself that gave her the most trouble. Above decks, where it held the least resemblance to a hailene airship, she was fine. Below decks, however, it looked very much like any ship, flying or floating. When she was alone there, it was hard to shake the creeping feeling that at any moment one of her old masters would appear and order her lashed, or worse, for her wings to be removed again.

For that reason, she stayed inside as much as possible; reading whenever no one else was available. It allowed her to avoid her memory-fueled paranoia, but it also meant that she swiftly went through her supply of books. Until one day, she had only one thing left to read: The Journal of Lena Hiddakko.

For what felt like the better part of the morning, following breakfast and a quick sparring session with Brin, Pele sat in what was now her room, staring at the ancient and water-stained cover.

Everyone but Ru had a room on the second floor of the house by then. The dark mage laid most of them out according to some floor-plan pulled from his considerable memory, but had added one detail to Pele's at her request: a double-sized hearth with a thick, black slab of stone set before the grate to absorb the heat. The only reason she wasn't stretched out on her belly there at the moment was fear of doing harm to her mother's book.

Instead, she had to opt for sitting propped up against the bed's headboard, directly in the path of the heated air blasting out of the hearth's conjured flames. Her wings were fanned out to the sides and slightly cupped to direct the most heat to her body.

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