Gifted Magic - White Dragon Tower - Book 1: (Young Adult Paranormal Romance Knights, Dragons, and Magic Series) by Kya Lind

Author:Kya Lind [Lind, Kya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kya Lind
Published: 2015-03-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Again the next morning they cleaned the wound. Traven was happy that no yellow showed on the cleaning cloth and he could fist his hand again. The kid scrambled around making a cold breakfast and packing camp. Traven eyed his travel companion as he worked. A Mirage, huh? Not a bad skill to have, he reckoned. Traven sighed. His breathe crystallizing in the air. Traven rubbed his hands together to warm them before pulling on his gloves. The left one was difficult to get on.

He guessed he could live with a Mirage. He mounted up and pulled the kid up behind him. He just wished the kid wasn’t so much trouble, and he smelled to high heaven. Oh, did that kid need a bath. Traven grimaced. He did, too, but that was just going to have to wait. He sat Barn to his regular ground-eating pace and they rode north into the tall Shadow Mountains.

They stopped at a shallow, clear creek that ran through a mountain pass at noon. Traven waited as the kid slid off the horse before his dismounting himself. The kid quickly tripped off to find firewood as ordered. Returning shortly was a full armload. Traven bent to work on cooking up some food.

The boy trailed down the creek a ways, and sat down on a large flat stone near the creek’s edge.

The boy unbuttoned his coat but kept his stocking cap on. He gazed at his reflection in the creek. The tears slid noiselessly down his cheeks and dripped onto his properly folded hands. He stared at his hands. They were so dirty. He reached forward and washed them in the ice cold, creek water, but without soap little of the stain came off. The tears continued to drip. Reya stared at her reflection again. She had never been this tired, or scared, or dirty before. She wanted to scream and stomp her feet and demand that life go back to the way it should be. The way it was supposed to be. The way she remembered it being, before . . . before she had discovered the Allure . . .before she had escaped . . . before she had sent Boy to his uncle’s to find help for Sir and Lady Talone. . . before she had borrowed that big red warhorse . . . . before she had learned to like that big, loud Kingdom guardsman.

What was she going to do? She should have asked how much farther it was to the tower when she had visited him last night, but she hadn’t. She kicked herself. She had been too distracted by the color of his eyes, and the way he looked at her like she was the most beautiful person alive. She should have kept her head, and remembered to ask. Now, she couldn’t. If she asked as the boy, he would recognize her voice.

Now she couldn’t ask him in the night dreams. She could never go back to visit him again.

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