Sea of Sighs (Empath Book 2) by Dawn Peers

Author:Dawn Peers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy romance, empath, ya fantasy, strong female protagonist, young adult fantasy romance, top fantasy series, teen love stories, fantasy for young adults, fantasy female lead, best ya fantasy
Publisher: Permuted

18

“It looks just like Everfell.”

Maertn stood with his hand on his hips surveying Farn, which stretched out in the distance. Quinn was on her hands and knees, kissing the ground. Maertn crouched, rubbing her back with the palm of his hand. Quinn continued to retch, bile spewing out of her mouth onto the pebbles. “This bit,” she said in between heaves, “looks different.”

“Our beaches are sandy,” Maertn said absentmindedly. “The city up there,” he nodded towards the horizon, “looks just like any other city. I thought this place would be different, Ross?”

Ross was throwing their bags from a small rowing boat, which they had used to get off the ship, onto the beach. It was a slim chance, but he hoped to avoid having to declare his arrival in Farn, along with his young cargo, before he’d had a chance to sneak himself to the council. Ross looked down at Quinn. “You’re off the ship now, lass, you can stop being sick.”

Quinn shot a look at Ross, but the movement made her nauseous and she couldn’t get a word out before she was sick again. It had stop at some point; there was nothing left in her stomach. All of her muscles ached. Her stomach had been torn by her nausea, and the rest of her had felt lethargic and heavy ever since the Sighs had overwhelmed her.

“Maertn, the walls might look different, but the inside—let’s just say you’re in for a pleasant surprise. Besides, this will look so similar because the stones used to build it came from Daggerdale.”

“Really? Why didn’t they just mine their own stone?”

“Look around you lad, it’s an island. Where do you think they’d get it from? Farn is mostly chalk. Nothing here that you can build with. They had to import it, in ships like the one we just came in. Imagine how much that weighed, and how many ships it took to build something that size?”

Maertn looked again, a little more awe now stretching across his features. By the end of their journey, he’d started to hate sailors, but now they did earn a little more respect in his eyes.

“Well then, let’s get in there, shall we? I need a proper bed, somewhere to lay down for the night where I won’t be rocking from side to side.”

“Woah there, not so fast. Firstly, we’ve got to wait for this little thing here to stop being sick.” Ross pointed down at Quinn, who puked again by way of response. “Then, I’ve got to figure out what I can actually can say when we get to the council. And we’ve got to get to the council halls without being stopped by any of the guilds, or just flat-out arrested for being foreigners. So what I can do, is make camp here for one night. You’ll still get your wish of sleeping on solid ground, it just won’t be as soft as you’d hoped.”

Maertn ground his teeth in frustration, but he didn’t complain. In truth, he was just glad to be off the ship.

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