Storm of Shadows: Legends of Imyria (Book 2) by Holly Rose

Author:Holly Rose [Rose, Holly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Spark Press
Published: 2022-08-21T16:00:00+00:00

twenty

An evening breeze rolls over me as I gaze up at the twinkling stars. Natharius stands to my left, leaning against one of the temple’s pillars, and Zephyr hovers on the other side of me, his wings beating back and forth. The Void Prince’s arms are folded across his chest, and his foot taps against the stone. Over and over. With so few outside the temple, it would be peaceful if not for the incessant tapping of his foot.

“Stop that,” I snap, glaring at his foot.

“Stop what?” the demon asks, raising a silvery brow. His foot pauses, offering me a moment’s respite. Then it continues louder than before.

“Your foot. You have an awful habit of tapping it whenever you’re waiting. It’s irritating.”

“Don’t blame me,” Natharius replies. “Blame the priestess and her friends. We have been waiting out here for almost an hour. If they were here already, I wouldn’t need to tap my foot.”

I heave out a breath. Unfortunately, he has a point. We’ve been waiting outside the temple for a while, though Taria promised she wouldn’t be long. I fed Zephyr more aether crystals and filled my enchanted pouch with more supplies before we came out here to wait. I expected the temple’s maids to protest when I headed down to the kitchen, but they saw to my request quickly. They must have wanted me to leave the temple as soon as possible. And to take the Void Prince with me.

Regardless, the priestess’s lateness doesn’t excuse Natharius’s annoying habit.

“Why are you so eager to leave, anyway?” I ask. “I didn’t think you’d be in such a hurry to be reunited with the priestess.”

Natharius wrinkles his nose. “I’m not in a hurry to reunite with that light-worshipping fool. We should leave her behind.”

“That doesn’t answer my other question.”

“Which other question?” he growls.

“Why you’re in such a hurry to leave?”

“I’ve already explained this before,” Natharius says, casting me an exasperated look. “The sooner we leave, the sooner we reach the Ghost Woods and you die.”

I don’t need to glare at him, since the one Zephyr casts him is scalding enough. Natharius offers him a venomous scowl, and my faerie dragon’s resolve crumbles and he cowers behind me.

I sigh and stroke Zephyr’s head, though it does little to calm his nerves. “I wouldn’t count on it though,” I say to the Void Prince. “There’s always the possibility that I’ll make it through the Ghost Woods alive.”

“Indeed,” Natharius says with a sigh. “And perhaps I will be forced to remain in this wretched place for decades.”

I pray it won’t take decades to defeat Arluin. I can’t allow Father to be enslaved to his will for that long. Nor can I allow Nolderan to go unavenged.

I say none of this and continue stroking Zephyr. “Anyway,” I say, “I don’t believe you.”

“What don’t you believe?”

“That the only reason you’re eager to leave is so you can return to the Abyss sooner.”

“Returning to the Abyss is my only interest. What could possibly make you think it is not?”

“Oh, just the part where you were intrigued as to what Arluin intends for Imyria.

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