King's Flame: An Isekai Fantasy Adventure by Ronan Les

Author:Ronan Les [Les, Ronan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-12-11T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

Our initial confidence with finding this boy dropped quickly. As the sun began to set, and the winds over the hills continued to whip around erratically, it became nearly impossible to keep track of the trail we were following. We knew that he must have been traveling on foot, but that didn’t make it any easier for us to catch up, when we were taking so long trying to follow shallow footprints in the pitch black of night.

As the night wore on, we all felt the need for sleep itch away behind our eyes. Each blink threatening to lengthen, each breath hoping to exhale into a yawn.

I didn’t want us to fall asleep entirely, so I let the girls take turns on the back of my horse, to catch whatever sleep they could, as we inched along. I knew that we would make up more ground during the day, but if we slept, we risked losing it all. I refused to go back to that villager empty handed.

I had entirely lost track of time when the sky began to shift back to it being lighter once again. The grass gradually shifted back to green as the sky became more blue and the tracks became visible once again.

I was glad that this person hadn’t thought to hide their tracks at all, as the winds were making it near impossible for Callie’s sense of smell to have any bearing on our mission.

Drained from the long night, we pushed on, only stopping by rivers for breaks and to allow the horses to get a little rest, too. Now that we could see the tracks, it was easier to convince ourselves to take our time. There was no chance that the boy had walked all through the night, too. We should’ve been catching up to him at any moment.

Somehow, he was always too far ahead for us to spot. He had traveled an impressive distance in the half a day’s head start he had on us. I was also baffled at why he needed to be somewhere so urgently. Any normal person wouldn’t be traveling such a long distance at such a pace that we wouldn’t be able to spot them. While there were hills to hide portions of the landscape, we should’ve been able to spot him by just looking out over the view for long enough for him to resurface atop a different hill. However, we didn’t see any sign of him, but the tracks that we were following.

“Are we sure these are even his?” Eliza asked, saying out loud the thoughts that we were all thinking.

“The scent matched up to the tracks,” Callie said, shrugging, “and the tracks have led us this far.”

“But wouldn’t we have seen somebody by now?” Eliza asked. “There has been no sign of any meandering boy.”

“It is certainly strange,” I said, “but we can’t stop now. If we abandon this trail, then we abandon any chance of finding him. If we follow it, at least, then there is some hope still.

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