The Captive Twin (Principality Book 2) by R J Francis

Author:R J Francis [Francis, R J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-17T22:00:00+00:00

Shortly after noon, the Audician line reached Black Tube Caves, but the generals decided to have them continue southward a bit and strengthen their positions before the Arran reinforcements emerged into the daylight. This also meant that the ships carrying additional troops and Celmarean volunteers had to sail a bit further than expected into uncertain waters.

Makias was about to have lunch with the Arran officers when Alessa pulled him aside. “Have lunch with me,” she said. She led him to the flooded cave where she had meditated with Elaina, and they sat down on the underground beach. Sunlight streamed in from cracks in the ceiling.

“I didn’t know there was light in here,” Alessa said. “Last time I was in here it was nighttime.” She opened Makias’s burlap lunch sack and peered inside to see what he was expected to eat.

“This place is great,” Makias said. “Do you think it’s safe to swim?”

Alessa scooped up some water in her hand and smelled it. It smelled clean, but she didn’t want to assume it was safe. “Maybe,” she said, “but not today.” She knelt facing him and touched his cheeks gently.

“You seem relaxed,” he said. “Considering the battle ahead.”

“I believe we have a future,” she said.

“Of course we have a future,” Makias told her. “We’re going to clean this mess up on the mainland, and then we’re going back home. It will be like…that day never happened.”

She knew which day he meant: the day their island was invaded—the day they were ripped from the rich world of their youth. The day the relationship they might have had was denied. “It can’t be exactly like it was,” Alessa told him.

“I’m going to challenge you on that,” Makias said. “I want there to come a day when we look at each other and think: ‘This is exactly how it was meant to be.’ Whatever they’ve done to our palace, we’ll rebuild it. We’ll reshape the land into what we remember. And the people we lost will be so overjoyed at our work that they will return from the spirit world and live among us.”

“If only they could,” Alessa said, feeling his sadness, and her own. Like him, she had lost many friends and relatives that day, including her beloved parents. She knew they couldn’t put it all back together, and Makias knew it too.

“They live on in us,” Makias said. “The island lives on in us. And when we return, there will be an awakening.”

And we will rule, Alessa said in her mind. It was one of those thoughts that came from her soul without prompting.

“And we will rule,” Makias said aloud.

But how could Makias rule? they both wondered. Makias was a man. Men did not rule on Celmarea. Still, it sounded right to both of them.

Makias, searching Alessa’s soul through her intense brown eyes now, felt her wanting him. With her help, he eased her down onto the sand. She slid her legs up around his hips and with them pulled his body firmly to hers.

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