Five If By Flight (Chronicles of Winland Underwood Book 5) by Martha Carr & Michael Anderle

Author:Martha Carr & Michael Anderle [Carr, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2022-10-16T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

After her conversation with Sarah, Winland was relieved that nobody else tried to stop her on her way to the kemana. Apparently, five-thirty a.m. was too early for anyone else to consider making the same trek to or from the bluffs and the kemana entrance, which meant she had the entire journey to herself to think things over a little more.

The long-shot conclusions she and Sarah had come to about where these dreams were coming from still didn’t make a lick of sense.

If the dreams did come from Mom, why would she wait over a hundred and fifty years to reach out to me in the first place? Why would she wait until I found the artifact? And if it’s not her…

She swallowed thickly and forced herself to slow down and take this time to think.

If it wasn’t Winland’s mom sending her messages through her dreams, it was something—or someone—else trying to use Winland to get…what? The Arthastol unlocked from within all those wards? Or something else?

And how much did she know about the Arthastol in the first place?

She knew that it reached out to her mind when she stood in front of it, seconds away from unraveling the wards and enchantments that kept it untouchable and floating in the air. That it promised her it would help her find everything she wanted. That it was the only option she knew of to track down the warrior witch.

Assuming that what Hector had told her about the thing was actually true.

Why would he lie to me about that? He’s a Custodian. Sure, a little eccentric for a Custodian, and he apparently left Minnesota for the first time in thirty years to come back here with me. Belmont wouldn’t have sent me his name if he suspected the guy wasn’t exactly the guy everybody thinks he is.

The tangle of thoughts wound itself around and around her brain until she finally reached the kemana entrance. As Winland walked down the giant stone staircase winding around and around the gaping hole that led miles underground, the repetitiveness of it was almost meditative. At least it got her to stop thinking about all the unknowns with Hector and the Arthastol and the warrior witch and her dreams.

That left her enough space in her mind to start thinking about her upcoming conversation with Joziah Erickson.

At least it’s right here in front of me. And talking to Erickson makes a lot more sense right now than everything I don’t know about these dreams.

Focusing on anything, however, was a lot harder to do once she reached the bottom of the staircase and noticed more changes to the kemana. Sometime in the two days since she’d come down here the first time, the thin sliver of a crack in the caved-in rocks between the staircase and the kemana’s enormous cavern had been diligently chipped away. Now the space was wide enough for three magicals to walk side by side, and the echoes of all the activity in the

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.