The Defenders of Dembroch: Book 1 - The Age of Knights & Dames by Patrick Harris

Author:Patrick Harris [Harris, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SunBurst Sagas
Published: 2019-11-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 26:

Wandering the Woods

Across the island, Jenn was lost. She’d been shuffling around the woods for hours on end, trying to find her way to the seer’s cottage. Like her husband, directions were not her strong suit.

In her hand, she held the seer’s Sight. The two mirrored talismans were comparable to steel marbles. Shallow grooves were carved intricately into the reflective surfaces, all encircling an iris and pupil. The more Jenn looked at these stones, the more she felt the engraved pupils were looking right back at her.

Just get to the seer’s cottage, Jenn kept telling herself.

But such an easy task that would have only taken an hour or two in the daylight was taking Jenn all night. She was lost in an unfamiliar, dark forest. The thick canopy of dead tree limbs made for difficult navigating. There was no telling what other terrors lay ahead or if she was even headed in the right direction.

She pressed on. Eventually, she figured, she would stumble upon a shore or landmark to indicate which way she should go. Nonetheless, she had to have hope. It was something she’d long forgotten and only recently rediscovered, but she held onto it like a toddler fighting for a blanket by holding onto the tattered strings on the end.

Suddenly, there was a snap of twigs, then the sound of something large moving toward her. Too late, she heard the ticks of hundreds of clocks. She saw eyes, giant orange orbs with black slits for pupils.

Before Jenn could scream or fight, the Dreadnaught’s jaws were around her, digging into the earth. They snapped shut. A crooked tooth sliced through her calf, drawing a river of blood. Up she went, dead grass and dry soil smothering her, teeth crunching, cutting into her skin, then a thick, slimy tongue pushed her into its throat. Her scream was cut out as the hideous beast swallowed her whole and scuttled off into the woods.

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