Haven: Chronicles of Warshard by Katherine Bogle

Author:Katherine Bogle
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Juvenile Fiction, Girls & Women, Action & Adventure, Fantasy & Magic
ISBN: 9781460286166
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2016-05-09T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Haven awoke with a start. For a moment she lay still, images flashing through her mind. Blood-soaked grass, bodies lying on the plain, a sword ripping through her friend’s shoulder. Lareina and Corrin’s faces as they retreated. The young king had literally dragged her away. Then she remembered why she’d blacked out. Her hand flung to her side. The wound was long healed. Haven sighed in relief and then started again when she realized how unfamiliar her surroundings were.

Gazing around the room lit with beautiful morning light, Haven blanched. This room was absolutely stunning. Golden walls, decorated with burgundy-and-bronze wrapped pillars and adorned with jewels and large paintings of animals, places, and people she had never seen or could hardly imagine. Turning slightly, she looked over her shoulder to find a stained glass window, with equally strange images. Silks hung from the ceiling, along with a gorgeous chandelier. If she didn’t know better, she’d think she was dead.

Haven decided to sit up when she realized her wrists and ankles were wrapped in leather binds, chaining her to the table on which she lay. Pulling on her restraints, Haven began to panic. She pulled and twisted the shackles until her wrists were raw and her hands bled. Even then, she pulled some more, ignoring the bite and sting of pain in her wrists. After several minutes passed, she sighed and collapsed back onto the slab. The dull ache in her wrists quickly faded. It was useless. She wasn’t going anywhere.

“Finally you are awake!”

Haven stiffened. Kadia swept into the room, wearing regal silk black robes. Her ash-blonde hair shone in the golden morning light and her blue eyes danced in a frightful way that had Haven cringing.

“Good morning, sleeping beauty,” she purred, sitting in the chair beside the table. She took Haven’s hand and nuzzled it. “Trying to get away already I see.” Haven kept quiet, staring at her hand in shock. “Why do you want to leave me? We’ve only just met.” Kadia’s demeanor was somehow childlike. The way she smiled and looked, even her movements – they were all increasingly juvenile. “And your wound has already healed!” she gasped, searching through Haven’s shirt for even the trace of a scar. Haven knew she would find none.

“I need to go with my friends,” Haven said.

That was apparently the wrong thing to say. Throwing her hand down, Kadia growled and stood, pacing the room. While Haven had a moment to breathe she took in her surroundings again, finding there was more she had missed. In the corner by the window was a lush bed of silks, and a door at the far end of the room. It was slightly ajar, revealing a bathing room. Trying to get a closer look at the table she was lying on, Haven froze. She couldn’t believe she hadn’t noticed the table of instruments beside her. Covering a metal sheet were knives of all shapes and sizes, as well as different metal objects she had never seen.

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