Huntress Lost (The Timekeeper's War Book 2) by A.A. Chamberlynn

Author:A.A. Chamberlynn [Chamberlynn, A.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-25T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

“Xavyr!” I shrieked.

I ran to the edge of the raft, but Rorie pulled me back. I twisted in his grasp but there was no breaking free from his tree trunk arms. The air left my lungs as he crushed me against his chest.

Air bubbles surfaced in the spot where Xavyr went under, and the water grew turbulent. Long moments passed and my blood burned through my veins like acid.

And then, a head broke the surface. It looked like a snake and a swan and a dragon all mixed together, and it shone a metallic pewter color. It was quite large, the size of a compact car. I didn’t want to know how large the rest of its body was. Eyes of milky white pinned themselves to my face, and it shivered as if in anticipation before lunging toward the raft.

Then another head surfaced, this one far more familiar. Xavyr swam up behind the creature and threw the end of the rope around its neck, looped it once, and then tossed the end of the rope through the beast’s mouth like a horse bit. The thing screamed in rage and thrashed beneath him, but he held fast. They went round and round in front of the raft until suddenly the fight went out of the creature and the battle was over.

The creature turned back in the direction we’d been going and swam forward, pulling the raft behind it. Xavyr moved arm over arm back to the raft. Rorie loosened his grip on me and I shoved away from him.

“Don’t act like you care if I live or die,” I spat at him.

He stared back at me and something flickered through his eyes, but I couldn’t read it.

I turned and helped Xavyr climb aboard. “Are you okay?”

“Never better.” He flashed me a grin, and I realized that he’d actually had fun wrestling a giant lake monster. Kellan would have acted the same way. Kellan. We were so close. Every cell of my being hummed with it. Please let him be okay, I whispered in my head, over and over.

The air shimmered and a huge structure came into view right before us. One moment all I saw was horizon, and the next we were deposited at the feet of a palatial dwelling that sat directly on the water. Despite a lack of land beneath it, the building didn’t rock on the water in the least. I seriously doubted it was moored to the floor of the lake, however deep down that was. Here in the Timekeeper’s realm, laws of physics weren’t a thing.

It was solid white marble, so pure it was nearly blinding. All one story, though quite large, sprawling over the water like a giant lily pad. Around the perimeter of the structure a tangle of white roses hung unanchored in the air. Not just the roses were white, but also the vines on which they grew and the enormous thorns that protruded from them. The thorns adorned not only the vines but spiked out from the centers of the flowers themselves.

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