Rogue Magic by McKenzie Hunter

Author:McKenzie Hunter [Hunter, McKenzie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781946457875
Publisher: Sky Publishing LLC
Published: 2018-07-03T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 13

The water was clear azure, making it hard to believe it might be anything other than water. What spell or curse could have caused such a thing? Colorful fish swam there, their fins whipping about as they moved throughout the water. We wouldn’t become water, we’d become part of the ocean life. How many of them were humans? I edged closer to study the fish.

“You can stay here,” I offered to Gareth. “I’ll go and—”

“Don’t you even finish that sentence. We go together and we return together.” He continued walking toward the water until he was submerged before he swam toward the smaller island. I debated whether or not to leave the sai sheathed to my back behind and decided I wanted them with me. Knives were fine, but the sai were my weapons of choice and in an odd way, my security blanket—or security blades.

The cool water was refreshing, but the sounds of the water were calming. So much that it felt as if they were lulling me to sleep. I swam faster, jolted by the memory of the Mors, the assassin that had been sent to kill me after its hypnotic sounds had debilitated me. I hoped this wasn’t doing the same thing. Ignoring the mesmerizing sounds, I pushed against the gentle waves until I made it to land. Gareth waited for me at the edge of the water, his expression indecipherable. He had to be as disturbed as I was that we weren’t wet. We were as dry as we’d been before we’d swum over.

“Should we start freaking out now?” I asked, with a faint laugh. It was forced, an effort to calm my jitters. The dark, bleak island wasn’t anything like the island we’d left, which made it harder to determine if the sun was setting. It looked as if it already had. The only indication to the contrary came from looking at the other island and Gareth’s watch.

Stiffening, I examined the new island. Sand and trees were the only things that populated it. The fragrant smell of flowers inundated the air, lightly masking the smell of magic that I felt crawling up my arms.

“The magic here is stronger.” I pointed out the obvious, another nervous reaction. I didn’t like this place. It was too pretty and too serene. Conner had made me skeptical of beautiful and serene places. They could give a false sense of security and lure a person into letting down their defenses.

Gareth and I started to walk past trees, some palm and others that reminded me of weeping willows, long viney branches moving oddly with the gentle breeze. Too animated, as if they could possibly come alive; I wasn’t putting anything past this place.

“Watch out for the trees,” I warned and expected the look Gareth gave me. It sounded ridiculous.

His brows arched. “Of course,” he joked. “They look dangerous.” He pointed to one large one with limp branches that appeared to be struggling to live. “Especially that one. I bet it’s the most dangerous of them all.

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