Marie (The Curse of Lanval Book 2) by Rebekah Dodson

Author:Rebekah Dodson [Dodson, Rebekah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven: Magic Medicine

As I raced toward the sound of water, I tried to convince myself I’d had too much ale and my wound had made me see things. My side started to burn as I ran, and it was hard to keep my sword from slicing me in two. How did these fuckers make it look so effortless in the movies? I wish I’d never strapped it on today.

Finally, at the edge of the forest line, I found a rushing creek. At first glance, I didn’t know how anyone could fish in it. It looked deep, fast, and a bit dangerous. Piers was sitting on a rock with his rod out in front of him. He looked half asleep.

The clouds were rolling in now, thick and dark. A storm of storms was coming, Marie had been right.

“Allons-y!” I shouted to him, let’s go now, in French.

I startled him, and he dropped his rod. The creek wasn’t fast or large, but the current carried it away as soon as it hit the water. He jumped down off the rock. “Sire?”

“There’s a storm coming.”

“Aye, yes, Sire,” he said and quickly joined me. He peered through the trees at the sun and then looked at me. I shrugged. There was no time to argue unless we wanted to be stuck out here in a downpour. I’d already done that once, I had no desire to do it again. Not waiting for him, I took off back toward Marie’s grove. I didn’t want her to be out alone in this.

The toad hopping away from us was still burned into my brain. I was partially sure she would be okay.

Behind me, Piers called out suddenly, his cry cut short by a splash. He’d been nimbly leaping up the hill toward the forest, but when I spun around, he wasn’t anywhere to be seen. I scanned the water edge and saw his head pop above the water. The creek rushed him downstream fast.

“Oh shit,” I said, running back toward the rapids of a creek.

He was trying to scream for help in French, his arms flailing about. I realized either he couldn’t swim or the creek was too deep for him to get any footing. To the west, the creek widened and large rocks protruded from the surface. If I didn’t get to him in time, I …

Ah, fuck. I lost my footing, recovered, jumped to another rock, racing on the edge of the pebbled bank. “Piers!” I called out. “Hold on!”

I heard Marie from somewhere far off, behind the trees. “Prince Henry?”

Lightning split the sky, as the clouds rolled in full force. A storm from nowhere, dark and angry, spread across the tops of the trees. Even the sun was blotted out, and I had to strain to see the struggling boy.

I spotted his still frame, floating toward a rock nearly as big as myself. The water was rushing so fast, exacerbated by the winds that kicked up. If he smashed against that rock, it would be over.

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