Invisible Bound by Lucia Ashta

Author:Lucia Ashta [Ashta, Lucia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Awaken to Peace Press
Published: 2018-09-13T05:00:00+00:00

16

I’d barely managed to fall asleep before Rane was shaking me awake. “Nir.”

I groaned, every part of my body aching and clamoring for more rest. “Let me be, Rane. Let me sleep. I’m tired.”

“I wish I could, but you need to get up.”

I groaned again, and kept my eyes firmly shut, hoping he’d take pity and leave me alone. “You need your rest too. Just sleep.”

“I did sleep, and so did you. There are others coming, and unless you want them to discover me talking to an invisible person, you need to get up.”

As much as I wanted to convince myself I didn’t care, I couldn’t. I opened one eye. “Who’s coming?”

“Brute ran ahead to tell us a bunch of the Dragon Force is heading down the mountain path. They’ll be here soon.”

I sighed. “Couldn’t they have waited until we’d slept? Didn’t they want to sleep? The moon’s still up.”

“Aye, the moon’s up all right, but not in the way you think.”

Lazily, I sat up and leaned my head against his shoulder. “Whaddya mean?”

“I mean, you slept through the moon, the entire time the Auxle Sun was up, and now the moon’s up again.”

I jerked straight up. “I slept that long? Are you serious?”

“Would I kid about something like that?”

“That’s exactly the kind of thing you would joke about.”

“Okay, okay, you’re right, but I’m not making it up. Ask Traya.”

I looked and found Traya sitting just out of sight. “Did I really sleep that long, Tray?”

When she heard me, she smiled, and moved over to us. “You sure did. Are you feeling better?”

“I guess I am.” I rubbed a hand over my face, another over Rosie, who was awake, wide-eyed and looking at me too. “I guess I must’ve really needed that.”

“You must have. It makes sense. From what the charmers said, you used a lot of faithum. You’ve never done something like that before, it’d be logical that it would take its toll on you.”

I blinked at my amiable sister, with her soft, dark eyes and ready smile. She was talking about faithum as if it were an everyday thing. It’s as if I’d fallen asleep and woken up in another world, one where all the things that were once forbidden were commonplace. I petted Rosie, cementing the idea. “How are you doing, girl? Feeling better?” I left out the last bit I was thinking, Now that you’ve had time to recover from me abandoning you?

But she seemed to have recovered. She gave me her best dragon smile and inched closer, something that didn’t seem possible yet she managed it.

“We need to hide you,” Rane said.

“Why? Did they find the shadow man?”

“No. Crush said there was no sight of him.”

“They might not have seen him even if he were here.”

“You heard Crush and Dean. If they say he wasn’t here, then he wasn’t.”

“Or we hope he wasn’t.”

“No, Nir, we have to trust them and their judgment. Remember how much more experience they have than us. Besides, Dean seems even more protective of you than I am.

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