Magic Wept by Andi Van

Author:Andi Van [Van, Andi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-64080-673-3
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-09-17T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

“WELL,” REIKOS said as he craned his neck to try to see the peak. “This is rather a big mountain, isn’t it?”

“Your brilliance is wasted in the royal guard,” Zaree said dryly as she rolled her eyes. “Of course it’s big. It’s a mountain, for Maker’s sake.”

Jorget looked up much the way Reikos had and shrugged. “Well, I don’t know. There are mountains, and then there’s this. It’s kind of excessive, isn’t it?”

Shan laughed. “Well it’s not like the mountain planned it that way.” He looked at Whogs and raised an eyebrow. “You say there’s a path up this monstrosity? I’ll admit to being glad about not having to climb my way up with ropes and hooks.”

“Where’s your sense of adventure?” Lifit, who had joined their party on the way out of the village, boomed. “It’s just a little one.”

“To a twenty-foot-tall giant, maybe,” Shan said with a snort.

Daro let out a whine as Kelwin looked up the expanse as well, but the elf stayed silent as he began to take in exactly how large a task he had gotten himself into. Even knowing he wasn’t going to have to actually climb, it was intimidating. The place looked nice enough, what with the amount of greenery he could see and the number of birds he could hear, but the top was shrouded in clouds. “Are those clouds always there?”

Lifit and Whogs both looked up, then looked at each other and shrugged. “I guess so,” Whogs said. “I don’t think anyone has ever paid attention to it.”

Tasis gave Kelwin a speculative look. “What are you thinking?”

“It could be my imagination getting away from me,” Kelwin said slowly. “But I happened to think about the storms Vashk set up.”

“What storms?” Reikos asked, turning away from the mountain to look at him.

Kelwin glanced at the rest of the guards, and gave his head a little shake. Hopefully Reikos got the hint. Telling Reikos about the storms protecting the isle was one thing, but talking about it in front of a bunch of guards he didn’t know, even if Reikos did trust them, was a completely different story. Tasis must have been in the same mind, because he ignored Reikos’s question and asked, “You think they might be magic, then?”

“Well, I don’t think we can discount the notion. If one guild is shrouded, it wouldn’t be a surprise to find another in the same state.”

“Now I kind of wish I hadn’t promised you I wouldn’t continue past the bird.”

K’yerin, who was safely ensconced in Tasis’s arms, let out a low growl. Clearly, the cat didn’t like the idea of Tasis putting himself in harm’s way any more than Kelwin did. And Kelwin couldn’t blame Tasis for wanting to be there. He was well aware of his lover’s abundant curiosity, and the thought of there possibly being another abandoned guild hall he wasn’t allowed to enter had to be incredibly frustrating. Hopefully, if that’s what Kelwin and the others stumbled across, he’d be able to share it with Tasis after making sure it was safe.

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