Hymn of Breath and Bone (The Whispering Sea Duet Book 2) by Madeleine Eliot

Author:Madeleine Eliot [Eliot, Madeleine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2024-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“He’ll be fine,” Zephyr said for the eighteenth time as I practiced molding fog into different shapes. I scowled and floated a fog seagull toward her.

In the last three days I’d done nothing but train, drink tea, and practice harnessing wind. As soon as Caspian suggested I might have the ability, it was like something broke open inside of me. Suddenly, speaking to the sky and wind was as simple as speaking to the sea.

Zephrus above and Undine below. The sky and the sea joined forever at the horizon.

Not for the first time, I wondered where that left Melusine.

Zephyr looked at me unamused as the seagull flapped its foggy wings once and disintegrated into shapeless mist.

The idea for the fog shapes had struck me yesterday as we sailed through a particularly dense cloud, and I’d been entertaining myself—and the sky, if I wasn’t imagining its regular rumble of masculine amusement—with fog animals ever since.

“So you can really speak to the sky?” she asked, waving at a cloud of fog ineffectually.

I asked it to coalesce a little to the right, and it obliged with a tiny gust. “Apparently.”

“That’s not a normal selkie thing, right?” she pushed. Zephyr had kept me company all morning, and we’d been over this already, but I knew she was trying to distract me from Caspian’s absence.

He should be back any minute, if he hadn’t been killed or captured. The warm glow of the bond in my chest told me he hadn’t, but I gnawed on my lower lip regardless.

“It’s not.” I debated for a moment how much to reveal to her, but decided to keep my theories to myself. “He thinks someone named Theia will have answers. Have you ever met her?”

“Once.” Zephyr shuddered, and I raised a brow at her. “She was…odd. Unsettling.”

“What happened to her?”

“That’s her story,” Zephyr replied, giving me a wry smile. “And I couldn’t tell you the whole truth of it even if I wanted to. Only Cas knows it.”

“Is it something to do with the Betrayal? The Exile, I mean?”

Zephyr gave me a knowing look. “I’m not lying, Marina. I truly don’t know everything. But if Cas thinks she can help, I’m sure he’ll take you to meet her.” She shuddered. “You won’t enjoy it.”

I frowned. Who was this female that everyone seemed so disturbed by?

A thump on the deck next to me broke me from my thoughts as fire-hot hands gripped my hips and warm lips covered mine.

“Miss me, Urchin?”

“No,” I lied, stepping back to scan him for injury. He looked fine, but it didn’t stop me from running my hands over his chest just to be sure. “What happened?”

“It was the Stormcrow alright,” he said. He sounded exhausted, but his attention was diverted by the menagerie of fog animals surrounding me. “Are you sure you didn’t miss me, Urchin?”

Caspian grinned at my restless attempts to distract myself, and I dissipated them into mist with a wave of my hand. “Did you kill him?”

“No.”

“Was he behind the attack?” Zephyr asked.

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