Surfacing by A.S. Etaski

Author:A.S. Etaski [Etaski, A.S.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: erotica
Publisher: Corpus Nexus Press
Published: 2020-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

At first, I worked on memorizing the path we took to use again, but Gavin muttered that I shouldn’t bother.

“The pattern the undead walk is predetermined, but the cycle is long. Chances are much greater the blind spots you need on the way back will have changed. The talisman must be enough, and I recommend not retracing your steps exactly.”

Well, damn. Good to know neither mage was stupid or lazy.

I poked him. “So, you are competing for this Ley intersection, are you not?”

Gavin glowered at me, and I smiled.

“I know this ‘song’ draws those most sensitive to magic,” I said. “It drew me.”

“Perhaps,” he admitted. “But I am not ready to challenge him.”

I knew it.

Despite further probing, however, that was the end of the discussion. Gavin didn’t speak again until we had woven through brush and ravine, copse and ditches before climbing partway up a mountain.

“We’ve crossed the extent of his reach,” Gavin said, sweating as I was from the exertion under the lowering Sun, though he smelled in need of a wash. “I will leave you here.”

He reached into his pocket to offer me a tiny bird skull etched with intricate markings, holding it by the tips of his fingers. I took it, glad for my glove as it felt… cold. It sent a shiver down my back.

“Try not to crush it,” he said, turning to gauge his way before leaving alone, a state to which he was no doubt accustomed.

Maybe preferred.

I was familiar relying on myself through childhood, yet after just a few turns in the Sisterhood, I missed some of them. There were two about whom I kept thinking, and my chest tightened as began climbing the mountain.

Ridiculous, but I looked forward to seeing Tamuril after the mere night and morning apart, surrounded by both baffling and hostile males. The Druid wouldn’t have left; she would be there waiting. She had sent her bird where I could see it, or perhaps Pilla had been watching for me to exit the stone structure, and I finally had.

I’d revealed my spiders to the apprentice to get out here undetected. If this did not suggest I wasn’t always content working alone, then I lied to myself.

I moved up and along the most climbable, angled path, keeping an eye and ear out for the screechy, spotted falcon. Pilla reappeared before long, refraining from her sharp call; she curved around to show me the direction. I followed.

Tamuril’s earth-colored cloak and doeskin clothes did a good job camouflaging her; I scented her first when the breeze shifted just right and moved in her direction until I spotted her crouched outline. Green eyes in a pale, Elven face appeared as she looked up at her companion taking to a branch; whatever the animal communicated without words reassured her I had come alone.

“You got out,” she said in hushed tones as she stood up again. Now that I could compare, the lithe Pale One was about as tall as Mathias but shorter than Kurn and Castis.

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