Legacy Fulfilled: A slow-burn fantasy romance (The Warrior Queen Legacy Book 4) by Laurel Night

Author:Laurel Night [Night, Laurel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-08-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Kaliya

In the end, all of my mates got over themselves and everyone got in a few good fights. By the time we finished, it was nearly time to go check our traps.

After a quick wash and change of clothes, I put my armor back on. I couldn’t help it. The slightly constricted feeling of the hardened leather made me feel more in control, and so many things conspired to make me feel out of control at the moment.

If The Scientist’s acolytes found it strange, they didn’t say. Now that Emory was healthy enough to merit the trip, we all chose to travel along and enjoy what was bound to be a spectacle. The robed women loaded a trailer up with a trio of slim metal boxes, each with impressively thick walls. The trailer appeared to be customized for the purpose—it had a mechanical pulley at the top and an almost comical amount of steel chains.

Mateo and I took the cycles, and Stig, Emory, and Rowan rode in the truck. It hadn’t rained for several days, and the gravel road was excessively dusty. Mateo and I rode far behind the two trucks to avoid the choking plume and allow us to enjoy the scenery. Once again, it was a brilliant, sunny day.

However, just in the last two days, things had begun to change. Subtly, but enough so I noticed.

The air was slightly more crisp, a definite cool edge to the summery weather. The rich green of the birch leaves had changed, patches appearing faintly more yellow than those around them.

Summer was almost over. The implications of that knowledge hit me like waves of anxiety as we sped toward our first destination.

The end of summer meant the coming of winter. Longer nights, shorter days, colder weather and less abundant food.

We hoped the fortress could support the clan for the winter, but there was no guarantee. A poor harvest of fall crops would lead to hundreds facing a hungry winter. We still didn’t know if the betas we’d left behind were able to build the greenhouses and get them planted on schedule, let alone the housing improvements we desperately needed to make the situation work.

It was our only choice, and I knew the others agreed.

But it didn’t stop me from feeling as if I were taking an awful risk. The packs had lived in their villages for centuries. The Western Pack was safe on their island. True, they lacked for fresh water, but they had easy access to it a swift boat ride away. The Southern Pack had plenty of fresh water and the most temperate weather. The long, nearly impassable land bridge that protected them from the wraiths had defended them for so long, there was no reason to suspect it. And the Eastern Pack was similarly safe, also on an island with an ocean between them and any potential wraiths—if anything, they were probably the best-defended of all. Finally the Northern Pack, with their special bridge, and canal, and wall… they faced austere weather in the winter but seemed well-prepared to handle wraiths.

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