Max and the Isle of Sanctus by John Peragine

Author:John Peragine [Peragine, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: L'Oste Vineyard Press

Chapter Seventeen

My body ached, and my head hurt as we descended quickly from the peak of Mount Krades. We flew over the dark forest that I had followed Ilk and the twins through just hours before. I wanted to lie down and sleep as exhaustion swept over me. I would have taken a nap, but the idea of waking up while suspended by talons in the air terrified me.

I wasn’t close enough to talk to Anya. I could barely make out her shape in the gloom, and only when the moon peeked out from the clouds above us. My mind was a jumble of thoughts mixed with anger, terror, and regret. I was a mess. So many things I had seen and heard the past couple of weeks were colliding with one another.

If I hadn’t rescued Mom from the ice in Arctus, then who, or what, had we been transporting? If she wasn’t my mom, the twins weren’t my sisters, but I didn’t know why they were lying to me. I couldn’t piece everything together, but my loyalty to the twins and my mom had put all my friends at risk. And for what? For some creature to toy with me? It just didn’t make sense.

On the other hand, if it was really my mom and sisters I had been with, I may have left them to die in a fire. I remembered my dad’s message: “Trust your heart.” Right now, my heart said I needed to return to Cinn and Mesha and somehow free them and leave this island.

Everything stopped. There was no warning and no transition from being in the sky to being seated on a tree stump in a dark forest.

There was a fire crackling before me and some lanterns with what looked like giant fireflies illuminating the clearing I found myself sitting in. Trista was nowhere to be seen.

Who is he?

Why is he here?

What is he?

Voices were overlapping in my head in whispered tones, asking questions and creating pressure in my head.

Is he magic?

Who is his mother?

Can he see us?

“Stop,” I shouted as more voices added to the noise, filling my head. But the questions continued one on top of the other. I held my skull, feeling like it would explode. My magic quickly slithered inside me and crawled into my throat, which tightened and made it difficult to breathe.

“I said STOP!” I shouted as magic that had built in my throat was released. And the voices stopped, and the forest became was silent. Not even a cricket stirred. I stood up and looked around, trying to get my bearings. I assumed I was in the jungle that covered the base of Mount Krades, but I couldn’t be sure. There was no visible trail. The full moon was lower in the sky than it had been when I was flying. How long had I been here?

“Hello?” I shouted. “Is there anyone out there?”

An eerie hush was my only reply.

Eleepo, I said in my mind. I need help again.

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