The Deceit of Tongues (In the Eye of the Dragon Book 2) by N. M. Zoltack

Author:N. M. Zoltack [Zoltack, N. M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-07-04T16:00:00+00:00

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Olympia Bai

For over a week, Olympia had been doing her best to maintain the peace. As the days of unending night grew closer, she was beginning to wonder if peace was even worth it. The struggle to keep everyone happy was proving to be such a cumbersome burden that she was fighting herself to stay put and continue to battle.

It didn’t help that the guards were watching them all more closer now. The people were on edge, and every time someone looked at someone else wrong, the guards would move to cut in. Olympia had to be the master of diffusing fights before they even became a fight in order to keep the guards at bay.

It wasn’t that Olympia wanted the guards to remain here. All she wanted was peace. If that was possible with a Rivera on the throne, or even that Grantham…

No. Just no. Tenoch Proper should not be like this. That wasn’t to say that the islands could not all be united under one rule. But why couldn’t there be a king or a queen for that matter who could be the main ruler. A lesser ruler could be appointed to each of the islands and govern for the king or queen, in their stead. There could both be a global government and individual power as well. The best of both worlds, perhaps.

Bu no one asked Olympia for her thoughts on the matter even though they should. All of her life, Olympia craved peace even more than she did love.

In fact, she doubted she would ever find love. She knew all of the men on the island, and she knew that none of them were the one for her. One day, she might leave, and maybe then, she would think differently about love. Honestly, she doubted her mind would be altered.

The clouds in the sky as the moon was beginning to rise ere most unsettling. Olympia feared a storm would be coming. It wasn’t until the next morning when the sun never revealed her golden face that the monsoon hit, furious and deadly.

Monstrous waves slammed into the island, spattering sand everywhere, making it impossible to see anything. The swirling wind ripped at Olympia’s hair and clothes as soon as she left her sand cave, and she could hardly move at all. Beneath her feet, the sand would not support her weight, always slipping and sliding beneath her heels.

“Go to the center,” she shouted, but the monsoon captured her words. She couldn’t even hear them herself.

Still, she continued to yell and call. Children especially tended to be in awe of the terrible storms, and she would not rest until each and every single one of them were safely in the stone shelter. Nothing else would work for this one. Nothing at all.

So much sand was stirred up that the particles were attacking her as much as the biting wind and the towering waves. Only by cover her mouth and nose with her soaked shirt could Olympia breathe. Her lungs burned.

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