Kiss Across Seas (Kiss Across Time Book 8) by Tracy Cooper-Posey

Author:Tracy Cooper-Posey [Cooper-Posey, Tracy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Vampire Time Travel Romance
Publisher: Tracy Cooper-Posey
Published: 2017-04-26T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Sydney suspected that she was sleeping on her feet. She was tired and sore and worried, her thoughts circling endlessly, with no answers presenting themselves. If this had been L.A., she could have sorted things out in twenty minutes. A request to her directors would fix most things. Here, though, she was powerless. She didn’t know enough of the culture.

The other thing that was making her sleepy was the almost complete silence with which the caravan moved. Of course, there was no clopping of horse hooves, here in the desert. There was an occasional jingle of metal from their harnesses and that was all. Camels were also freakishly silent. Everyone who was on horseback probably was sleeping, while she had to keep putting one foot in front of the other. The pace was slow enough for everyone who was on foot to keep up, and so the horses and camels did not tire too quickly.

The night sky overhead was alive with stars. Out here, there were no city lights to ruin the view. Sydney could see the glow of nebulas and gas clouds and so many, many more stars than she had ever seen before. It made the night anything but dark. There was light all around them, bouncing off the white dunes.

She walked and possibly dozed, her mind foggy. No one spoke to her. There was just the gentle pull of the rope on her wrists and the whisper of a breeze somewhere overhead. It was not cold and it was not hot. In many ways, it was a beautiful night.

She just wanted to stop walking.

When the caravan did stop, she almost ran into Alim’s horse. Whispers passed back along the file.

“Storm! A storm is coming!”

Suddenly, everyone seemed to start rushing around. Camels trumpeted in protest and horses snickered and pranced sideways, made skittish by the panic in the air.

Sydney looked around, her heart thudding. The worry in everyone’s voices and hurried movements made her feel just as nervous as the horses.

Then she saw it. On the horizon, which was a long way away out here, a dun-colored band of cloud roiled. It glowed under the starlight and moonlight, stretched out before them with no edges. They were directly in its path.

Alim jumped from his horse and untied the rope from his harness and tossed it to her. “Hurry. Help me,” he said shortly.

Sydney struggled with the knot. It was too tight.

Impatiently, he untied it. “Take the covers.”

“Covers?” she repeated, pulling her wrists from the rope.

“Here!” The shout came from over her shoulder. She turned in time to get her free hands up to catch the bundle thrown in her direction and staggered backward under the impact. It was heavy.

Alim had pulled the saddle blanket off his horse. Now he took the bundle from her and unrolled it and shook out one of the layers, then tossed it over the horse’s back. It covered the gray from the neck down to his hooves. Alim tied the heavy cloth under the horse’s chin, then patted his nose, talking softly to him.

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