Seas of Everest (Fractured Everest Book 2) by D.H. Dunn

Author:D.H. Dunn [Dunn, D.H.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-10T00:00:00+00:00

Nima woke to the sound of Val’s shouting. She was not sure what he was saying, and she could not recall falling asleep. Her last memory was looking at the light of the Pillar while the waves crashed over her, Val sitting next to her and doing the same.

It was dawn now, and the brightness of the light hurt her eyes. She squinted into the spray of the sea, seeing a small, dark shape on the horizon. The island of the Thartark! Her heart quickened at the sight of it, even as a small blur on the distance. Val shouted again, words she did not understand. Struggling into a sitting position, she turned around to look behind her.

Val was stroking the side of the mistwhale, shouting strange words into what might have been its ears. The crystal on his head glowed a steady bright red, the beast’s own crystal now matching the hue. Past him she could see Tanira standing at the stern, staring off to Nima’s left. She followed the knight’s gaze and the reason for Val’s shouting became clear.

Pushing through the waves, much closer to them than the island, was a sailing vessel. It was larger than any of the fishing boats or mistwhale-led craft Nima had seen at Caenola. The gray sails were cast full in the wind, and she could make out thin, shadowed forms moving around the deck. Thartark she would guess, at least a dozen of them.

Her heart began to pound.

“Val!” she shouted. She didn’t need confirmation on her theory, she could see her answer in his dark eyes. “Can we outrun them?” As she asked the question, her mind was flooded with complications. Even if they could, where would they go? Back to Caenola?

Val gritted his teeth, turning toward Nima and away from the whale for a moment. “Not if they stay with the wind! We’ve got to get the whale on a course that pits the winds against them.”

“That would lead us away from the island!” Tanira shouted from the rear of the canoe. Her blades were out, though Nima couldn’t imagine what use they would be. Perhaps they brought her strength.

Val was focused on the whale, and the beast’s course slowly turned away from the island and the approaching ship, heading into the wind.

The breeze and spray whipped into Nima’s face, but she barely noticed. Her attention was on Tanira, blades in hand and eyes wide. A chill ran down her spine, the same chill she often experienced in the Khumbu Icefall, just before an avalanche.

Something was wrong here, something more than the Thartark.

“If you can hold this course, Val, you will escape them?” Tanira asked, her eyes intense as they fell on Nima. Her jaw was clenched, her hands trembling as they held her blades.

Val rubbed both of his hands on the whale, the creature bellowing and leaking mist from the effort.

“Yes,” he huffed. “I do not know where we will go, but as long as we keep the wind in our face we can outrun them.

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