Monsters & Mist by Taylor Fenner

Author:Taylor Fenner [Fenner, Taylor]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor C. Fenner Publishing
Published: 2021-03-19T05:00:00+00:00

Standing on a cliff’s edge thirty feet above the Warrior camp Octavia could see every inch of the grounds and the inky sea beyond. She shivered as the West wind splattered icy raindrops across her face. As the West and east winds battled for supremacy the torrent of rain blew one direction then the other and the dark purple sky above indicated the storm was far from done.

In the sea beyond the shore lightning criss-crossed the horizon and thunder rumbled like an angry growl in Octavia’s ears.

She’d stood there long enough. Thane wasn’t coming after her. Octavia doubted he’d even realized she’d left yet. Octavia had waited for hours, until Thane finally extinguished the candles in his dwelling and went to bed, before she made her move. Quiet as a mouse inside a temple Octavia toed her way into Thane’s sleeping quarters and left the note she’d written earlier in the curve of his left hand. He would feel it when his hand curled into a fist as Octavia knew it had a habit to do when Thane dreamed.

In the eyes of the law Octavia would be seen as a deserter, a crime punishable by dismemberment and the limbs of the traitor thrown into the sea to be devoured by the beasts of the sea. In Octavia’s eyes, however, she saw her leaving as taking the future of Vacantia into her own hands. War was coming, of that Octavia was sure. And whether Thane was willing to admit it or not, they would need allies to fight against the usurper Queen Lyra. Help that Octavia would hopefully find with the people she was born of, the Starborns who lived high in the sky.

Turning her back on the fortress that had been her home for most of her life, Octavia’s feet slipped around as she climbed from the sloping cliff onto sturdier ground. Her boots squelched as the ground turned from dirt to mud in the downpour. Through the trees Octavia hiked, heading toward the mountains in the distance.

All of her life, when people looked at Octavia and beheld the smattering of milk-white diamond shaped dots peppering the right side of her face from her hairline to her jaw, connecting by seemingly random zig-zagging lines of blue, pink, and white they saw a disfigurement. A curse from a Waterborn witch, perhaps. But the markings were neither a scar nor a curse, but a map to lead her home someday.

As a baby Octavia had been left on the steps of the Vacantian temple honoring her mother goddess, Adventrya, forced to live a life among the Landborn until — and only when - she would absolutely need her people and the markings on her face would bring her home. Growing up Octavia had seen her exile as a curse to be looked at with scorn and mistrust from the people around her, until the day she ended up at the Watierai Warrior camp. She figured this must be how the Mistborn girl, Andromeda, had felt when she found out her true heritage.

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