Solatium (Emanations, an urban fantasy series Book 2) by Becca Mills

Author:Becca Mills [Mills, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fantasy series, contemporary fantasy, speculative fiction, adventure, paranormal, female protagonist, dying earth, female main character, magic, dragons, monsters, action, demons, dark fantasy, hard fantasy, deities, gods, parallel world, urban fantasy, fiction, science fantasy, alternative history
Published: 2014-11-29T23:00:00+00:00

The journey through the highland rainforests continued for another two weeks. I got to practice my Baasha a lot, but that was the only bright spot. It rained constantly. Copper got a terrible case of thrush, and I came down with a hacking cough. The cracks on my feet got infected. Ida healed the problems every night, but they kept coming back.

We saw plenty of dinosaurs, including a few predators, but were never attacked again. It’s as though they dinos had spread the word about our party — well defended, look elsewhere.

Other travelers weren’t so lucky. On our next-to-last day in the rainforest, we came upon the aftermath of a recent attack. The survivors — if there’d been any — had moved on, but the dead were still scattered over the road. There’d been children, this time. One of the dead faces staring up into the pelting rain reminded me of my oldest niece, Tiffany. The girl’s clothes lay mostly flat in the mud. She’d been eaten right out of them.

I’d seen some bad things in the preceding months and didn’t get sick easily anymore, but that did the trick.

I felt tremendous relief when the rains tapered off, the trees began to thin out, and traffic on the road increased. We began passing several walled towns per day, and the oppressive sense of danger lurking all around us in the darkness finally lifted.

In mid-morning on a day in late October — I’d lost track of the dates — we crested a last hill and looked down onto a city. It wasn’t a metropolis, by any means, but it was a great deal larger than the towns we’d encountered so far.

“What is this place?” I asked Mizzy in Baasha.

“It is called Kye Wodor.”

“Water City?”

She nodded. “As you see.”

Indeed, the city ran down a long, gentle slope to the banks of a great river. I’d never seen such a big one, actually. It dwarfed the Mississippi up where it borders Wisconsin, and the Hudson certainly couldn’t compare.

“Do we have to cross that?”

“Yes. The ligature to Ancient Inland is on the other side.”

I could see plains over there — a long smudge of pale green beyond the river. I remembered Serhan saying they flooded in the rainy season.

“Where does the river go?”

“It flows into the Atlantic. The ligature to Blue Seas is right at its mouth.”

“That sounds nice.”

Mizzy tilted her head. “It is one of the most beautiful strata I have seen, but warm seas such as those are perilous.”

“Are there sea monsters?”

“Sea monsters.” She smiled. “Yes, that is an apt description.”

“Would you tell me about them?”

“A monster story?” she said, laughing. “I do know a tale. I will tell it as I heard it. But I warn you, it is not for the faint of heart.”

I grinned. It was a promising beginning.

“Many years ago, when I was little more than a child, my mother’s sister fell in love with a man from the Dragon’s Tail.”

“The Dragon’s Tail?”

“It’s a sea stratum,” Terry said in English.

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