Legend by Sever Bronny

Author:Sever Bronny [Bronny, Sever]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Epic, Fantasy Adventure, Fiction, Legends, Magic, Medieval Knights, Myth, Sword and Sorcery, Wizards
ISBN: 9780993767692
Publisher: Sever Bronny LTD.
Published: 2017-01-13T00:00:00+00:00

Maelstrom

Augum desperately struggled underwater to find the surface, but instead felt himself being pushed deeper and deeper into that watery abyss. The whirlpool pushed him around and around, faster and faster and faster. When he scraped the dark bottom, he realized the horror of the situation—there was no exit hole; the whirlpool had been created by the sheer force of runoff!

Panic suffused his being. He frantically strained against the current, swimming in what he judged was up, but as his breath had long run out, he was unable to stop suddenly inhaling a lungful of water. This caused his panic to worsen immeasurably, and he became a convulsing mess. As the walls of consciousness rapidly closed in, he felt himself being pulled by a force toward the edge. Soon as his head burst above water, the girls grabbed him and held on tight, finally dragging him onto a thin ledge, where he lay gasping for breath.

“Good job, Lee,” he heard Bridget say above the roar of waterfalls.

“It’s rising, we have to find the right passage,” Leera added, holding onto Augum, who still writhed in pain, coughing. She had evidently used Telekinesis to fish him out of the water, though how she saw him in that brackish maelstrom was a total mystery. That element of hers certainly showed its strength here.

“Which tunnel?” Leera asked.

While Bridget fished for the map in the soaked rucksack, Augum looked around. They were in a tall spill-off silo, the crown of which gushed water from a circle of spillways.

Bridget consulted the soggy map, shaking her head. “Should be right here.” She pointed behind them. “Almost exactly here, actually, but behind us.”

Leera raised her shining palm upward at the slick walls. “No tunnel above this spot.”

The girls glanced at each other before peering down into the churning water.

“Oh no, no way—” Augum gasped.

“Don’t have a choice unless you want to give up,” Leera said, nodding at a single rotten iron ladder across from them, leading to one of the tunnels above. “Place is filling fast. The sooner we dive to the tunnel, the less we have to swim.”

Augum peered at Bridget. “Tell me we brought rope—”

Bridget instantly fished a coil out of the rucksack. “Father always used to say to come prepared.”

They hurriedly tied up their waists to each other, with Leera as the head and Augum in the middle, seeing as he was still recovering from that underwater disaster.

“But let’s be quiet coming out of the water,” Bridget said. “Map margins say to expect a booby-trap.”

“Swim toward the light,” Leera said, raising her lit palm. “On three. One … two … deep breath … THREE—!”

They jumped into the massive whirlpool. The rope went taut immediately, squeezing against Augum’s waist. He swam in the direction of Leera’s palm light, trying not to panic again. After so many harrowing near-drowning events, he was seriously starting to develop a phobia of dark water.

Her light dipped around a corner, dimming significantly. Augum felt himself losing the battle against the water,

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