Sword and Stone by Georgina Makalani

Author:Georgina Makalani
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sword and sorcery, cursed romance, reincarnation, magical weapons, magic artifacts
Publisher: Georgina Makalani
Published: 2024-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Ellery sat in the cold corner of the too-white space and turned the stones over in his hand. Nara lay along the stone floor, her head on his lap. The woman who had unsettled Nara watched them too closely. She hadn’t taken her eyes from Ellery, and he worried that there was no way back from this if it was their last life.

The impulse to run still filled his senses. That he should take the woman he loved, no matter the consequences or what they might be leaving behind, and just run away. He looked down over Nara’s features, twisted as though in pain, and ran his fingers over the odd mark on his hand as he moved the stones around. He was uncertain of what they might tell him, if anything, but he needed the link to her.

Nara had just dropped, her temperature spiking again, and he feared that she would not wake this time. She squeezed her hand open and closed, groaning in her sleep. If that was what it was. No one was willing to come close. Although Ellery feared they might throw them back out into the snow, they had left them alone.

He ran a hand over Nara’s damp brow and through her loose hair. He had no idea what he could do for her in this life. His stomach growled quietly, and he searched the cavern for a sign of water, like the pail in the last one. He did not want to ask these people for anything.

There was something about the woman who watched him. He couldn’t place what it was, and it wasn’t a face he had seen before. At least he didn’t think so.

He closed his eyes, resting his hand on Nara’s shoulder, and she murmured in her sleep. He held tight to her stones, certain they were smaller than he remembered. He was worried that he would lose the pouch in his pocket, yet he needed to feel the stones against his skin.

Ellery couldn’t get a handle on the world they were in or the reason they were there. The pull—the understanding of danger—was not here. The only sense he had was the need to run and leave this place. Could there be a connection between this life and the last? Manning came to mind, along with the father who had sent him out to die under the guise of collecting Nara. But then, perhaps the man had been sure that Manning could do that. He had unnerved Ellery, but Nara had spotted him as the soldier he was; in fact, she was sure that she had seen him before.

Countless hours beneath the fire tree had been spent thinking over every moment of their last life, including the time before Ellery had lost Nara and she had returned. There was something that connected each life and drove them on. If someone or something understood what they were and could benefit from that, then it stood to reason that it might have been the same in previous lives.

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