Shadow Sight by T. G. Ayer

Author:T. G. Ayer [Ayer, T. G.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infinite Ink Books
Published: 2018-05-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

And they’d reached the end of that journey, celebrating success on the deck of their ship as they watched the pale shores of the city of Atlantis rise in the distance as though emerging from the middle of the ocean.

The wind gusted around Allegra, tugging at the fabric around her legs, pulling hard at her hair and thrusting her long locks into her face. Allegra brushed them aside impatiently, anxious that she would miss the approach to the great city.

But the journey was slow and long enough as the captain maneuvered his vessel along the waters, taking extra care to avoid the sandbanks that seemed to appear without warning. The captain had labeled the waters in this part of the ocean as capricious, but Allegra thought the word too mild. Her visions had told her what horrors would have awaited them had the residents of this city still occupied it. But her visions had told her otherwise. Months ago, the residents had fled, and her visions had been filled with the fear of the inhabitants. The most frustrating aspect of it was that the fears of the people had seemed unfounded and nowhere in her visions had she seen a reason for the people to flee the city.

As the ship drew closer, Goran came to stand beside her, taking deep lungfuls of air as though he wanted to inhale the very reality of the city’s existence. She knew she’d only told him what she’d seen because she’d loved his passion for history and archeology, his devotion to understanding the peoples of the past.

Many people, her family, the senate, and even his own friends, had accused him of living with his head in the clouds, of not grounding himself in reality and thereby shirking his role as the husband of the Pythia. Their relationship had blossomed before the weight of being the Pythia had fallen upon her shoulders. Neither she nor Goran had ever expected, or even wanted, such responsibility. And yet they’d both shared that burden and had carried themselves accordingly.

Allegra had shrugged off the criticism as the accusations of the envious, of those who coveted what her husband had. She’d had many suitors, a long line of men who thought themselves deserving of a place at her side. Little did they know that they had all failed the most important test, that should she see their future when she touched them, that very vision no matter what its content, would forever preclude them from ever sharing her life or even her bed.

But Goran had been immune, and being with him was a pleasure in more ways than those of being man and wife. To hug or hold someone, to pass a bowl of fruit, or share a grapple for a ball, all things the normal person could not ever understand. Goran was her island of peace, and she’d go to her death forever grateful for having found him.

And as a woman who knew the worth of the man

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