Secrets of the Sea Lord by Starla Night

Author:Starla Night [Night, Starla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Something gnawed on Faier’s wrist.

Sharp pricks—pinch—and real pain, as if a small animal was chewing off his skin, and snarling.

Danger.

“Ngh!” He came awake with a shudder. His side twinged. But there was no stabbing pain.

He searched for the source of his unease.

Harmony’s head rested on his bent knees. She lay on her side, the gentle swell of her hips and breasts undulating against the harsh prison floor.

Relief mixed with impending doom like two colors of oil on water.

Pinch.

He grunted. It felt like his tendons were separating. He strained against his bindings.

Shhhip. His wrists separated. The seaweed cables frayed apart.

He flexed his strained shoulders, brought his hands around to the front, and twisted them. Pain and heat radiated up his forearms. Pins needled his fingertips.

He strained to look over his shoulder without disturbing Harmony.

A small green tentacle waved in the corner of his eye. The unmistakable gurgling of an atonal, but otherwise pleased, house guardian scratched his eardrums.

Pinch. Pinch. The binding at his ankles loosened.

All bindings loosened. He expanded his lungs, flushing in fresh water. His mind cleared.

Neat bites on his wrist reddened where the house guardian had pinched him. Beneath, the wounds of his last battle with Tibe had closed. Swollen and dark, they were not as painful.

Strange.

He leaned forward to lift the bindings to a better angle for the house guardian and to reduce her bites.

“Freeze, rebel.” Warrior Luin—that was the name—startled as if he’d been snoozing on guard duty. He thrust a trident in Faier’s face. “I do not know how you got free, but release the king’s sacred bride and remain still, or I will—I will end you!”

Red lines, thin with inexperience, inked his skin.

“Shhh.” Faier lifted his palms in surrender and gestured at prone Harmony. “She is sleeping.”

“Yes.” His throat apple bobbed. “I could not make her move. But you can! No warrior may touch another’s sacred bride. But you will die for your crimes!”

“Please lower your voice,” he murmured.

To no avail.

Harmony stirred, rising and yawning. She saw the trident and froze. Her soul light darkened. “What do you want?”

Warrior Luin didn’t answer. He looked at Faier.

“He wants you to move away from me,” Faier said wryly.

“Why doesn’t he just say so?”

“Because they forbid speaking to another warrior’s sacred bride in a traditional city. It is a safeguard to prevent another warrior’s soul from resonating with a sacred bride and changing her allegiance.”

“That’s not happening.” She dismissed Warrior Luin with amusement. “No way is he stealing my ‘allegiance’ from the king.”

Faier’s heart squeezed.

Her soul had resonated with the king’s. They were very similar. He listened to her. In this short time, their souls flared the same color.

And she had earned the approval of a house guardian. This city called her soul. This Life Tree.

King Kayo.

Not Faier.

“Oh, yes! You’re awake. I’m so glad you’re okay!” She flew into Faier and wrapped him in a thrilling hug.

He grabbed her arms as he fell back, over his still-tied ankles, and bumped his head on the ground as he rotated with her.

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