The Keeper's Legacy: A Chosen Novel (The Keepers Book 1) by Meg Anne

Author:Meg Anne [Anne, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Words That Sparkle
Published: 2019-05-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“You should have come to me immediately,” Kieran insisted, his arms folded across his chest.

Effie rubbed her temples, the headache from her vision lingering even though it had been over ten hours since it claimed her.

“It’s not like I have any say over when they come to me, Kieran. Besides, Lucian was there, so what’s the difference?”

At the mention of her Guardian’s name, Kieran’s eyes darkened and his upper lip curled in a snarl. “As if a Guardian knows anything about dealing with prophecy.”

Irritation flared to life at his misplaced indignation. After several lifetimes of working beside and for the Triumvirate, he likely knows more than you.

She leveled him with a glare. “He knew enough to give me my Keeper’s journal.”

“He what?” Kieran asked, his voice dropping to just above a whisper.

Effie pulled the book out of the small pack she’d tied around her hips. “He talked to me about the importance of writing down my visions so that I could go over them with you.”

Kieran looked slightly mollified. “It still wasn’t his place,” he muttered, taking a seat at the small desk.

Effie threw up her hands in exasperation. “Are we going to waste more time debating the point, or can we get to the deciphering of visions part of the lesson?”

He waved a hand. “By all means.”

“Finally.”

Flipping to the first page, which was now underlined and had circles around or arrows connecting the words or elements she felt were most important, Effie described what she had Seen.

“And you think that your vision was in reference to the Shadow army?” Kieran summarized once she was finished.

Effie nodded. “Unless you know of any other bloodthirsty cannibals currently wandering the realm?”

“Take it from me, Effie. Time has no relevance when it comes to prophecy. You can See things that will not come to be for centuries. A person could lose a lifetime waiting for them to come to pass.”

His eyes were glowing with an intensity she was starting to recognize. He always had that particular gleam in his eye when he was referring to his dreams of her.

“This didn’t feel like some distant unknown future. There was an immediacy to it,” she insisted, focusing on the feelings of terror that had her trying to flee the cave in the first place. “And it didn’t feel like a particular event as much as a warning. Something’s coming . . .”

Kieran didn’t seem moved by her revelation. “Something’s always coming.”

Frustration simmered within her. His dismissal felt oddly familiar, and not in a comforting way. When were people going to start taking her seriously? Maybe once you do . . .

“I don’t know when, and I don’t know where, but the Shadows are coming, and soon.”

Kieran studied her, leaning back in his chair as he stared into her eyes. Effie tried not to squirm under the scrutiny, and she sat on her hands to keep from pulling her hair over her face. Her curls had always been a shield she could hide behind, a physical barrier she could place between herself and those that judged—or pitied—her.

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