Keeper of Light (The Lost Garden Book 3) by Holmberg D.K

Author:Holmberg, D.K. [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2015-03-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 17

Eris looked around the garden, staring at the flowers, trying to understand the meaning within the pattern. But she could not. Patterns were not her strength, not like traveling along the roots. Being able to understand patterns was Lira’s strength.

“Shadow, see if you can find another way out of here,” she said.

He looked at her and shook his head. “There is no other way. I have searched the entirety of this garden.”

“We have to try. Maybe there’s another slope we can climb?” she suggested.

Even as she did, she looked around her and realized there was not. The garden was set into a nearly sheer rock valley. That they’d reached it in the first place was likely more luck than anything. Shadow had been forced to jump the last forty or so feet down the rock wall; Eris couldn’t imagine how Terran had managed the same thing.

“So we’re trapped?” she said.

Shadow growled. “It would appear so.”

Eris touched the rock again. There had to be something she could do, some way of moving the rock, but her ability didn’t work like that. It wouldn’t grant her strength, and she couldn’t destroy with it. Were she like the magi, she might be able to crush the rock, but doing so risked bringing down even more of the mountain atop them.

“Can you do like you did when you brought me to Imryll the first time?” she asked. Somehow, Shadow had drawn her away from the palace and sent her to another.

Shadow let out another growl. “That will not work.”

“Why?”

“The gardener would not be able to come.”

Terran looked at her. “If you can escape, you need to do it. You can leave me here. There’s fish and water and berries. I’ll be fine. You can come back for me once you’ve done what you need to do in Saffra.”

She shook her head. “I’m not leaving you. If you can’t go, I’m not going.”

“But, Eris—”

“No. There has to be another way.”

She only had to figure out what it might be.

Eris stepped away from the rock and moved back toward trees. Standing under the shade, away from the bright sun, helped her think. What could she do to get them out? Could she plant a tree and have it grow high enough for them to climb? She looked over at the rocks. The idea had some merit, but it would be dangerous, and there was no way to guarantee they would be able to reach the rocks anyway.

But there might be another way using the svanth trees.

She might not be able to destroy—not like the magi—but she could use the trees to grow.

Eris stepped over to the fallen rocks and knelt alongside them. Energy hummed in them. She smiled grimly. If this worked, she would find the keeper and understand what she had done. How she had managed to ward the rocks. But first she had to get out.

She took a svanth seed from her pocket. Drawing from the nearby elms, she punched into the ground, sending the seed as deep as she could.

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