The Fallen Mender by R J Francis

Author:R J Francis [Francis, R J]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

While Makias took a solo shift at the stern, Marco, Alessa, Jaimin, and Nastasha sat on the floor of the mess, holding a vigil for those suffering on the mainland. Each lit a candle to honor the hundreds of Arrans dying on the front lines. Alessa could feel that Arra was taking heavy losses.

“I could have saved some of them,” Jaimin said.

“Come on, Jaimin,” said Nastasha, “even if you hadn’t decided to go on this voyage, you could never have reached Arra in time.”

“And you would have been killed trying to get there,” Alessa added.

“We’re going to need to work quickly,” Jaimin said. “With the divine spirit’s help, we won’t be on Celmarea long.”

Jaimin closed his eyes, and the others knew he was again searching for Elaina’s spirit. Everything would be so much easier, he thought, if she were just to return to her body then and there, so they could turn the ship around and deal with the tutor some other time.

That night, Nastasha slept apart from Mascarin. Another night with her new lover would have helped her unwind, but she didn’t want to add to Jaimin’s stress.

She spent the hour before falling asleep wondering—and planning—what type of mother she would be, with or without a husband. What would she tell her children about these tumultuous days? What would her life’s story be?

It was too soon to even think this way, she concluded, with so much of her story as yet unwritten.

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