Sorrow's Peak by Jennifer Melzer

Author:Jennifer Melzer [Melzer, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Romance, Fantasy, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Epic, Teen & Young Adult, Metaphysical & Visionary
ISBN: 0692272690
Amazon: B00MQAI6TY
Publisher: Dragon's Gold
Published: 2014-09-08T13:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

The magic of the setting Nua Duaan sun mimicked the patterns of the aboveground orb from which it borrowed its likeness. It passed slowly across a false sky laden with the wispy afterthought of clouds tinged in shades of violet passing into pink and orange before the gold edges of light dwindled beyond the horizon. Lorelei stopped to peer out the windows, breath caught in her throat and completely mesmerized by the beauty of a sunset that wasn’t even real.

Yet it was one of the realest sunsets she’d ever seen in her life.

“How do they do it?” she muttered into her shoulder, unable to draw her eyes away from the window.

Finn wasn’t paying attention. He was at her back, edging slowly down the hallway and trying his luck with the doors lining the second floor corridor. Each of them was locked, as were the unoccupied rooms on the third floor, and the frustration was only accentuated by the inhibitions he had about sneaking through their host’s manor like little thieves.

“Do what?” he muttered, only half paying attention.

“The magic that makes these cities so…” Words lost on her tongue, a breath escaped her and fluttered through the thin curtains hanging over the thin glass in the windows. “I don’t know, they’re just so real, and yet… nothing about them is real at all, is it?”

“I have no idea.”

She wasn’t sure if he had no idea if they were real, or how the magic worked, but she didn’t ask him to elaborate because she knew he didn’t care about such things. Finn was not simple by any means. In fact, she was starting to think he might just be the most complicated person she’d ever met in her life. He didn’t feel the need to bog his mind down with explanations to the many things that made the world go around, not in the same way she did.

At times she found herself wondering how she could be expected to spend the rest of her days with someone who didn’t question the world, and yet there was something comforting about his point of view. He stuck to what he knew. Very rarely did he question what was laid out before him; he accepted it and went about his business with the guidance it provided. When there was no guidance, he often did things anyway, believing everything would be made clear when the time was right.

Like his feelings for her. Never once had he questioned them, even when they were still strangers. He accepted them, embraced them and hadn’t looked back since.

Sometimes she wondered if he resented the fact that he’d been given no choices, but it didn’t seem like he did. That made her feel guilty. Part of her resented not having a choice in the matter, even though she was rather fond of the most infuriating person she’d ever met.

“None of these doors are open,” he grumbled at her back. “I don’t know if that’s suspicious, or not. I mean, if

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