Shadow Cross by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: BA
Publisher: ASH Publishing
Published: 2017-05-08T23:00:00+00:00

They didn’t rest very long that evening. Carth slept fitfully, but she slept. She tried to keep on edge, maintaining her focus, knowing that she needed to in case they tried to sneak a different poison into her. For now, they believed she drank from the water bottle, but if that didn’t last, if they started to question whether she really had, she wanted to be alert for the possibility that they might somehow sneak it into her. She wasn’t completely sure whether the water was tainted, but she had enough suspicion to avoid it.

She awoke to the sounds of one of the men moving, his feet shuffling through the dried grasses, and she looked up to see the smaller man sneaking off, disappearing in between the trees. Carth stared into the darkness, wishing for the shadows to lessen somewhat, anything so that she could fade into them, or use her cloaking so that she could disappear.

It didn’t happen, but her eyesight had always been good in the darkness, likely tied to the fact that she was shadow born. She noted how the scholar and the larger man rested, both of them lying on their backs, their breaths coming regularly, and even the larger man snoring softly. Neither of those two men knew the smaller man had disappeared.

What was he playing at? Was there something else afoot that she hadn’t quite discovered?

She remained motionless, waiting, her eyes cracked just enough so that it would seem that she slept if he returned suddenly. She kept her breathing slow and regular, doing everything she could to mimic sleep patterns.

She lost track of time and might even have slept a little when the smaller man returned.

He came back into the clearing, his hands stained. Was that blood or something else? Then he took his place on the ground once more, resting near the others. It wasn’t long before his breathing became regular and steady like the other two, the sign that he actually had fallen asleep.

Carth smiled to herself. If there was something more taking place, that might be her way in. She just had to find out what it was. Once she did, then she could start trying to play these men against themselves.

It was as good a plan as she could come up with.

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