Rise with the Tide by D. Brumbley

Author:D. Brumbley [Brumbley, D.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance
Publisher: David Brumbley
Published: 2024-04-06T05:00:00+00:00

SIXTEEN

Kaia was sitting in front of a large fire and wrapped in several blankets, but she still felt ill as she watched the flames. “I hate winter.” She whined as she remained unmoving. “Everything is dead and it makes me feel ill every time. I hate it.”

“I know.” Taimon said from across the room, trying to keep the warm air from the fire centered around his sister. “But not everything is dead. We’re all still here.” He shrugged, looking down at himself, since he obviously wasn’t hurting as much as she was during the cold seasons. “Some of us more than others.”

“Not all of us are still here.” She replied softly as she pulled the blanket a little tighter. “When Devon was alive, I could snuggle against his fur in the winter. He never seemed to mind.” She sighed sadly. “And Destin…He made me laugh so I would forget how cold it was.” Kaia found herself sniffling and tears rolling down her cheeks. “And he never let me cry. He took my tears off my cheeks.” She knew her siblings didn’t need to hear all of her stories, but winter always depressed her.

A hot breeze immediately ran past her cheek, blowing away her tears with Taimon’s equivalent of a joke, but it didn’t help her mood. “You need to spend more time in your garden and less in front of the fire. That’s the only thing that’s going to help you.”

“It’s dead.” She pulled her knees up to her chest under her blankets and rested her chin on her knees. “I don’t want to spend time out there.”

“Enough of your whining.” Daiva finally snipped as she got up from her chair where she had been reviewing some documents. “You are a Forestborn, this is a struggle of your kind, but not a death sentence. Destin and Devon are gone, but you are not. Stop whining.”

“And you are cruel and heartless.” Kaia shot back, still sniffling. “Do you even miss them? All you do is run around plotting and planning, and for what? Destin was trying to do it for love. Devon tried to do it for a different future. What is it you want, other than a fight?”

Daiva stared at her younger sister and tapped her fingers on her stone chair before she gathered the documents nearby into a pile of large tree shavings. She got up, tossed it all into the fire, and looked back at her siblings. “I have things to do.” She turned her attention to Taimon specifically. “Make sure she eats.”

He nodded obediently, and went to grab a few pieces of fruit that were dried during the growing season and had grown by Kaia’s own power when it was at its height. They had plenty of food stockpiled to last them until the spring, mostly because of Kaia’s work for them during the summer, but that wasn’t really the issue.

“You’re wrong about her, you know.” He sat back down next to Kaia, hoping as he did

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