The Glass Mountain (Faerie Book 2) by Grey Jenna

Author:Grey, Jenna [Grey, Jenna]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2016-01-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten.

The journey was for the most part surprisingly smooth, with just the odd heart-stopping leap into the air when the sleigh hit a rock or bump in the snow. They were travelling down the mountain, into the valley, and all Lily could see from the back were the tops of trees whizzing past and the winter sky. They were very warm and snug under the covers, and Lily soon found herself dozing. It had started to snow again, and the fur they were hiding under was soon buried under a thick layer of white which they had to keep shaking off. They were both in very good spirits, because, at last things finally seemed to be going their way.

Then the world turned upside down ‒ literally.

Lily was thrown through the air as the sleigh lurched violently to one side, toppling, and almost throwing Lily and Connor out. There was the dreadful sound of splintering wood as the runners beneath the sleigh were wrenched apart as it overturned. She was totally disoriented, spilling through the air, and tumbling in a heap in the snow, covered in a pile of furs, skins and parcels. Mawgum gave a fearful scream, torn from him from somewhere deep in his belly, a sound so terrible that Lily felt her bowels cramp; she had never heard anything so terrible. Connor grabbed her arm and pulled her to her feet, and when she stumbled and landed face first in the snow, he still kept dragging her, grazing her face against the razor sharp crystals of ice that had shattered from the sleigh as it toppled. He flung her back into the shelter of the upturned sleigh, just as an arrow zipped past her head and buried itself in the wood, just inches away from her ear.

“Goblins,” Connor hissed. “We’ve driven straight into a goblin raiding party.”

Lily brushed the stinging crystals from her face, bewildered, totally numb with shock and so very afraid.

“Mawgum?”

Connor shook his head.

“There’s nothing we can do for him. We have to take care of ourselves.”

Lily didn’t believe that Connor had meant that to come out as unfeeling as it had, but Lily needed to direct her anger somewhere and he was the only target. She gave him a look of outrage, pushing him away from her as he tried to manoeuvre her further into the shelter of some packages that had somehow managed to stay in place, shielding her with his body.

“I’m not leaving him,” Lily hissed, trying to free herself from his iron grip to scramble out of the sleigh.

Lily could hear terrible shouts and screams coming from every direction, not screams of terror or pain this time, but the baying calls of goblins in a blood rage. They howled and hooted, banging metal against metal, in riotous joy, letting out bellows of triumph. Their laughter rang around the mountains, echoing in Lily’s ears and making her even more determined to make them pay.

“Do you think we have a choice?” Connor asked, grabbing the tops of her arms and shaking her.

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