The Forgotten Sky by R.M. Schultz

Author:R.M. Schultz [Schultz, R.M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

Rynn

Rynn wanders the ridgeline of a jagged peak above the station. Pale sunlight bleeds in through the clouds swarming around her, clouds that mask the plunging cliffs on either side.

She recalls anger storming from her heart out to her extremities, her face hot with rage earlier this morning. Those emotions seemed so fabricated, so not her, but they budded and blossomed inside her anyway.

Rynn feels less broken, less afraid, less than she should given what happened to her. And quickly recovering emotionally isn’t something familiar.

She hikes up an incline, the faces of boulders protruding from the dirt, leading her on. Her sutured eyelid stings, her skin actually frostbitten by whatever happened in that dream in the sarcophagus.

Fogged images of Rynn’s dreams inside the sarcophagus run through her mind. The shadowless creature and her dad. Some other little girl.

Who was that girl supposed to be?

The creature seemed to want to help Rynn run away from the merchant, possibly because the creature lived in a similar situation with the Northrite. Thoughts of the creature send a cold shiver jumping down her spine.

Was it all a dream? You see more than dreams, Rynn, her dad’s voice replays in her mind.

What she’s learning from the shadowless creature in the make-believe cannot be ignored.

Did Prabel actually trap her in that sarcophagus? His beaming smile appears in her mind, his sharply trimmed beard, his flamboyant feathers and clothes. His sweet meals. Nadiri was also a victim of his, then, as Jaycken freed Nadiri from the other sarcophagus, saved them both.

If what Forgeron said about Prabel is true, which now seems likely, she will stay on with them Frontiersmen. The chance of locating her mom in a vast galaxy also seems more promising while working with the military of the mind rather than a single merchant.

How many times has Rynn been put to sleep inside that box of granite and forced to not remember when she woke? She must have been drugged, like when her dad took her eye.

There is a reason she’s been so tired and weak every morning.

“Rynn!” a voice rolls up the ridgeline and through the clouds. Jaycken’s voice.

“I’m just a little farther up.” She turns back.

Rynn would not return to Prabel’s tower, ever, but after the rescue, she needed to get away from people, clear her head, to find a place where she felt safe in this foreign environment: in solitude, hiking in the mountains. So much of her is still her dad. She will never escape him.

Jaycken’s dark hair appears between a swath of clouds, droplets of moisture gathering his locks in clumps and clinging to his cheeks.

There he is. The young man who saved her. Who might have washed her with his emotions like a Beguiler. Does he even know it? How powerful is he? He’s only a recruit but carries more confidence than an officer of the Frontiersmen.

“Rynn.” Jaycken heaves for breath. “We need to go. There are orders for us to Stride to Pseidoblane in under an hour. I’m

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