Lost Mages 2: A Progression Fantasy by DB King & Shawn Whitney

Author:DB King & Shawn Whitney [King, DB & Whitney, Shawn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-05-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Zhe awoke before the others and left them sleeping in the room. They were sprawled on the floor, bed, and a long sofa that Toro had claimed.

The room, while large, was stuffy with so many people in there the whole night with the shutters closed and locked. They had all slept in the same room, just to be certain that Najashi didn’t try to eliminate them one by one in the night.

Outside the air was cool and fresh. It was shortly after dawn, and the sun was just peeking over the wall in the courtyard garden outside of his room.

The first thing that Zhe did was to check the marks he’d left in all the doors of the other’s rooms. He’d closed the doors with strands of hair in them to see if someone had opened them in the night.

Since none of the Bone Mages had slept in their rooms, the entry of someone would suggest that Najashi had indeed been up to no good but wasn’t foolish enough to try to ambush all of them.

He discovered that in all the rooms, the hair strands that he had left in the doors were still in place. No one had opened the doors.

It was too soon to assume that Najashi would keep his word, but him not trying to assassinate them was a good sign at least.

In the large courtyard, Zhe found a table of fruit, bread, meat, and cheeses. There was goat’s milk here as well as mint tea and juices.

He considered passing on the food in case it was poisoned but decided against it. If Najashi didn’t even try killing them in their sleep, he’d be unlikely to try poisoning them.

Filling a plate, he went deeper into the garden, wandering and enjoying the beauty. So much of the last few months had been non-stop battles, flight, and danger—the death of Isaac and destruction of Seaview.

It was nice to enjoy some beauty with the sounds of birds welcoming the sun.

He assumed that later they would hear from Najashi that he wouldn’t permit them to take their families, forcing them to fight him. Taking a moment for a nice breakfast before killing the king seems like the right thing to do, he thought and chuckled.

As he came around a low shrub with large, red flowers on it, he froze in his tracks. There, standing in front of him was Ayana. She was pacing and chewing a nail nervously. And she was young again.

Zhe wondered if her spirit was haunting the place where she died. Then he remembered that he had seen her in the underworld.

She had passed on.

“Naiara?”

The woman who looked like Ayana stopped at his voice and turned to him.

It had to be her.

Another woman, younger than Naiara stepped out of the shadows of a fountain. She could have been Naiara’s twin.

“Lydia?”

Tears jumped to Zhe’s eyes, and he felt like his heart would explode. They weren’t the little girls he had once bounced on his knee and carried on his shoulders.

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