Remnants of the Lost by D. K. Holmberg

Author:D. K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D. K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2019-03-14T16:00:00+00:00

24

Daniel

Returning to Elaeavn was difficult. Daniel Slid from Nyaesh, emerging in Asador for a moment to recuperate, and then from there, he Slid onward, making his way toward Elaeavn. If he had more confidence in his strength, he would have done so in a single Slide, but traveling in this way was taxing.

Then again, it wasn’t quite as taxing as he would’ve expected it to be.

When they emerged near the Ilphaesn Mountain, Rayen looked over at him. “Why all the stops?”

“So that we don’t end up in the middle of this mountain,” he said, looking up at it.

“It is impressive, though not quite as impressive as some farther to the south.”

“There are larger mountains to the south?”

“Incredible mountains to the south, and even beyond that.”

“Maybe I need to spend more time Sliding around the world.”

“I thought that was part of what you were doing.”

“I hadn’t spent that much time doing it before.”

He turned his attention to Elaeavn. It would’ve been easier had he been able to Slide with Lucy, but she had another assignment, a task that she hadn’t wanted to share with him. Though it troubled him, he thought he understood. If he were captured, he wouldn’t be able to betray them.

“Have you ever been to Elaeavn?”

“I’ve been near it,” she said.

“Near?”

She pointed to the sea. “We sailed past a few times, and though your people like to believe your city is concealed from the water, the angles don’t quite work out as well as they believe. From a distance—and with the right spyglass—it’s quite easy to make out the entirety of your city.”

“When I was growing up, I couldn’t imagine going anywhere else.”

“Most children feel the same way.”

Daniel took a deep breath. There were times when he thought that it would’ve been easier to have stayed within Elaeavn, to have taken up the role his parents wanted for him. Had he done that, he never would have gotten involved with Carth. He never would have known about the extent of the Ai’thol. He would have feared the Forgers, the same way everyone who lived in Elaeavn feared the Forgers and the possibility of another attack, but beyond that, he would have known a relative safety.

It might be ignorance, but within ignorance was also a certain happiness.

Now that he knew the truth, and now that he had experienced much more of the world outside the borders of Elaeavn, he would never be able to have that blissful sort of ignorance again.

“I wouldn’t have stayed if I hadn’t believed that it was worthwhile for me to do so,” he said.

In the distance, waves crashed along the shore. The sound was no longer familiar to him. After having spent so much time in Nyaesh, he’d begun to forget the steady rhythms of the sea as waves crashed along the shores. As a child, he had known the distant sound of the waves along the shore. Even within the palace, it was possible to hear that sound, to listen to it as the waves struck, and to be lulled into a certain sense of comfort by it.

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