MORTAL TRINITY by St. Clare Kelly

Author:St. Clare, Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-28T16:00:00+00:00

Sixteen

The powers of Oblivion had led their crew from the blue beach and through a long tunnel. Charybdis was no longer visible in their current location, which the powers had referred to as the landing. The landing was a flat, sprawling space consisting entirely of open-ceilinged ruins.

With the energy of the recent battle pumping through her body, Ebba had been ready to assemble the root of magic then and there. But the powers had insisted otherwise, assuring them the pillars couldn’t enter the landing and that there was much to talk about prior to taking the next step.

The powers had ushered each of them off to bathe and eat.

She might have been angry at the time, but a long soak in a bath amongst the rustic ruins of this place had her feeling almost mortal again. Being clean felt better than a cool breeze under a beating sun.

The water she sat in was purple like that on the other side of the tunnel. And the water she’d drank earlier had been the same. It tasted like normal water. . . .

The open-ceilinged ruins of the landing were built right up to the bank of what appeared to be a sea or lake. The fiery black stones she recognized from Davy Jones’ Locker separated the ruins from the water’s edge in a thick band. Unlike the bath she sat in and the beach they’d just left, the water on the other side of the black rocks wasn’t purple but the brilliant hue of a red apple. The bright red stretched out as far as the eye could see.

Ebba had no idea why it was a different color, but Davy Jones’ had the same fiery stone and a boiling purple stream. Should she be worried about the similarities?

Ebba submerged herself once more in the sun-warmed bath—thankfully, the sun here was the same yellow color she’d always known—and clambered out of the large pool. Verity had joined her but washed and quickly disappeared through the ruins to find Locks. Hopefully tea didn’t exist down here because the thought of wandering through the ruins only to find an energetic tea party going on would be the last thread on a very worn rope.

Clean and with a full belly of rainbow fruit and star-shaped nuts that tasted like chicken, Ebba was ready to face the next hurdle: How to put together the six parts to form the root of magic. Stubby was looking after the chest, and really, she wanted to sleep, but the thought of Matey and the mermaid-like Jendu and the Capricorn out there watching as the tainted water surrounded them spurred her onward.

A woman with one huge violet eye and about the height of a desk had whisked away Ebba’s discarded clothes and left fresh garments.

Ebba picked up the bronze dress. The material was thick. The sleeves were wide. It kind of looked like a robe. She untied the cord, which acted as a fastening, and slid one arm in and then the next before securing it tightly.

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